  The effect of pressure on the structural, elastic and electronic properties
of the intermetallic compound MgCu with a CsCl-type structure have been
investigated using ab-initio technique. The optical properties have been
studied under normal pressure. We have carried out the plane-wave
pseudopotential approach within the framework of the first-principle density
functional theory (DFT) implemented within the CASTEP code. The calculated
structural parameters show a good agreement with the experimental and other
theoretical results.
