in a ferromagnetic state of a hollandite K 2 Cr 8 O 16 is accompanied by a structural
distortion from the tetragonal I 4/m to monoclinic P 112 1/a phase with a 2× 2× 1 supercell.
Detailed electronic structure calculations demonstrate that the metal-insulator transition is
caused by a Peierls instability in the quasi-one-dimensional column structure made of four
coupled Cr-O chains running in the c direction, leading to the formation of tetramers of Cr …