“…Despite a large number of experimental and theoretical efforts (Fateeva and Vereshchagin, 1971;Hixson et al, 1989;Moriarty, 1994;Errandonea, Schwager, et al, 2001b;Errandonea et al, 2003;Ross et al, 2004Ross et al, , 2007Verma, 2004;Errandonea, 2004aErrandonea, , 2005Errandonea, , 2006Cazorla et al, 2007;Cazorla, Gillan, Taioli, and Alfè, 2008;Luo and Swift, 2007;Taioli et al, 2008;Xi and Cai, 2008;Xiu-Lu, 2008;Zhang, Liu, et al, 2008;Santamaria-Perez et al, 2009), agreement on the melting behaviour of Mo, Ta, and W at high pressure has been elusive. The first shock wave experiment on high pressure melting of Mo done by Hixon et al (Hixson et al, 1989) up to 350 GPa, followed by early work of Moriarty (Moriarty, 1994) employed a many-body total energy function to predict the high pressure melting curve of Mo.…”