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First-Principles Prediction of the Softening of the Silicon Shock Hugoniot Curve
- Source :
- Physical Review B, 2016
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Shock compression of silicon (Si) under extremely high pressures (>100 Mbar) was investigated by using two first-principles methods of orbital-free molecular dynamics (OFMD) and path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC). While pressures from the two methods agree very well, PIMC predicts a second compression maximum because of 1s electron ionization that is absent in OFMD calculations since Thomas-Fermi-based theories lack shell structure. The Kohn-Sham density functional theory is used to calculate the equation of state (EOS) of warm dense silicon for low-pressure loadings (P < 100 Mbar). Combining these first-principles EOS results, the principal shock Hugoniot curve of silicon for pressures varying from 1 Mbar to above 10 Gbar was derived. We find that silicon is 20% or more softer than what was predicted by widely-used EOS models. Existing high-pressure experimental data (P = 1 - 2 Mbar) seem to indicate this softening behavior of Si, which calls for future strong-shock experiments (P > 10 Mbar) to benchmark our results.<br />Comment: 30 pages, 6 figures
- Subjects :
- Condensed Matter - Materials Science
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Physical Review B, 2016
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1608.07517
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.094109