Electronic-structure methods for materials design

N Marzari, A Ferretti, C Wolverton - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
The accuracy and efficiency of electronic-structure methods to understand, predict and
design the properties of materials has driven a new paradigm in research. Simulations can …

Hyperuniform states of matter

S Torquato - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Hyperuniform states of matter are correlated systems that are characterized by an
anomalous suppression of long-wavelength (ie, large-length-scale) density fluctuations …

Phase diagram of a deep potential water model

L Zhang, H Wang, R Car, WE - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
Using the Deep Potential methodology, we construct a model that reproduces accurately the
potential energy surface of the SCAN approximation of density functional theory for water …

Liquid-like atoms in dense-packed solid glasses

C Chang, HP Zhang, R Zhao, FC Li, P Luo, MZ Li… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Revealing the microscopic structural and dynamic pictures of glasses is a long-standing
challenge for scientists,. Extensive studies on the structure and relaxation dynamics of …

Materials discovery at high pressures

L Zhang, Y Wang, J Lv, Y Ma - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Pressure is a fundamental thermodynamic variable that can be used to control the properties
of materials, because it reduces interatomic distances and profoundly modifies electronic …

Nanosecond X-ray diffraction of shock-compressed superionic water ice

M Millot, F Coppari, JR Rygg, A Correa Barrios… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Since Bridgman's discovery of five solid water (H2O) ice phases in 1912, studies on the
extraordinary polymorphism of H2O have documented more than seventeen crystalline and …

Ionic liquids at electrified interfaces

MV Fedorov, AA Kornyshev - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Until recently,“room-temperature”(< 100− 150 C) liquidstate electrochemistry was mostly
electrochemistry of diluted electrolytes 1− 4 where dissolved salt ions were surrounded by a …

Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD

JC Phillips, R Braun, W Wang… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high‐performance simulation of
large biomolecular systems. NAMD scales to hundreds of processors on high‐end parallel …

Experimental evidence for superionic water ice using shock compression

M Millot, S Hamel, JR Rygg, PM Celliers, GW Collins… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
In stark contrast to common ice, I h, water ice at planetary interior conditions has been
predicted to become superionic with fast-diffusing (that is, liquid-like) hydrogen ions moving …

Structure and properties of two superionic ice phases

VB Prakapenka, N Holtgrewe, SS Lobanov… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
In the phase diagram of water, superionic ices with highly mobile protons within the stable
oxygen sublattice have been predicted at high pressures. However, the existence of …