Iron at earth's core conditions from first principles calculations

Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry

Volumn 71, Issue , 2010, Pages 337-354

  Alfè, Dario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; AB INITIO TECHNIQUES; EARTH'S CORE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HARMONIC APPROXIMATION; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH PRESSURE AND HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MELTING CURVES; MELTING TEMPERATURES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO; THERMODYNAMIC INTEGRATION;

CALCULATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GROUND STATE; HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MELTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78149421995     PISSN: 15296466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2138/rmg.2010.71.16     Document Type: Article

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