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The electronic thermal conductivity of iron at Earth's core conditions is an extremely important physical property in geophysics field. However, the exact value of electronic thermal conductivity of iron under extreme pressure and…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-28 Sheng-Ying Yue , Ming Hu

Knowing the transport properties of iron under realistic conditions present in the Earth's core is essential for the geophysical modeling of Earth's magnetic field generation. Besides by extreme pressures and temperatures, transport may be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-15 German G. Blesio , Leonid V. Pourovskii , Markus Aichhorn , Monica Pozzo , Dario Alfè , Jernej Mravlje

We compute the thermal conductivity and electrical resistivity of solid hcp Fe to pressures and temperatures of Earth's core. We find significant contributions from electron-electron scattering, usually neglected at high temperatures in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-12 Junqing Xu , Peng Zhang , K. Haule , J. Minar , S. Wimmer , H. Ebert , R. E. Cohen

Understanding the electronic transport properties of iron under high temperatures and pressures is essential for constraining geophysical processes. The difficulty of reliably measuring these properties under Earth-core conditions calls for…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-15 Kushal Ramakrishna , Mani Lokamani , Andrew Baczewski , Jan Vorberger , Attila Cangi

The electronic and thermal transport properties of the Earth's core are crucial for many geophysical models such as the geodynamo model of the Earth's magnetic field and of its reversals. Here we show, by considering bcc-iron and iron-rich…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-26 V. Drchal , J. Kudrnovský , D. Wagenknecht , I. Turek , S. Khmelevskyi

The electronic state and transport properties of hot dense iron are of the utmost importance to geophysics. Combining the density functional and dynamical mean field theories we study the impact of electron correlations on electrical and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 L. V. Pourovskii , J. Mravlje , A. Georges , S. I. Simak , I. A. Abrikosov

The transport properties (electrical resistivity, thermal conductivity, and viscosity) of iron-hydrogen alloys are of great significance in the stability and evolution of planetary magnetic fields. Here, we investigate the thermal transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-28 Cong Liu , Ronald Cohen

Temperature dependent transport of disordered electronic systems is examined in the presence of strong correlations. In contrast to what is assumed in Fermi liquid approaches, finite temperature behavior in this regime proves largely…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. O. Aguiar , E. Miranda , V. Dobrosavljevic , E. Abrahams , G. Kotliar

The Earth acts as a gigantic heat engine driven by decay of radiogenic isotopes and slow cooling, which gives rise to plate tectonics, volcanoes, and mountain building. Another key product is the geomagnetic field, generated in the liquid…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Monica Pozzo , Chris Davies , David Gubbins , Dario Alfè

Earth's inner core consists of mainly iron with a bit of light elements. Understanding of its structure and related physical properties has been elusive for both experiment and theory due to its required extremely high pressure and…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Bo Gyu Jang , Yu He , Ji Hoon Shim , Ho-kwang Mao , Duck Young Kim

We employ state-of-the-art ab initio simulations within the dynamical mean-field theory to study three likely phases of iron (hexogonal close-packed, hcp, face centered cubic, fcc, and body centered cubic, bcc) at the Earth's core…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-25 L. V. Pourovskii , T. Miyake , S. I. Simak , A. V. Ruban , L. Dubrovinsky , I. A. Abrikosov

We report on the thermal and electrical conductivities of two liquid silicon-oxygen-iron mixtures (Fe$_{0.82}$Si$_{0.10}$O$_{0.08}$ and Fe$_{0.79}$Si$_{0.08}$O$_{0.13}$), representative of the composition of the Earth's outer core at the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 Monica Pozzo , Chris Davies , David Gubbins , Dario Alfè

We discuss the role of dynamical many-electron effects in the physics of iron and iron-rich solid alloys under applied pressure on the basis of recent ab initio studies employing the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). Electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-19 Leonid V. Pourovskii

Earth core is composed of iron (Fe) alloyed with light elements, e.g., silicon (Si). Its thermal conductivity critically affects Earth thermal structure, evolution, and dynamics, as it controls the magnitude of thermal and compositional…

We present a comprehensive investigation of the electrical and thermal conductivity of iron under high pressures at ambient temperature, employing the real-time formulation of time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT).…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-14 Kushal Ramakrishna , Mani Lokamani , Andrew Baczewski , Jan Vorberger , Attila Cangi

The amount of heat transport from the core, which constrains the dynamics and thermal evolution of the region, depends on the transport properties of iron. Ohta et al.(2016) and Konopkova et al.(2016) measured electrical resistivity and…

Constraining the melting temperature of iron under Earth's inner core conditions is crucial for understanding core dynamics and planetary evolution. Here, we develop a deep potential (DP) model for iron that explicitly incorporates…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Fulun Wu , Cai-Zhuang Wang , Kai-Ming Ho , Shunqing Wu , Renata M. Wentzcovitch , Yang Sun

Electrical conductivity (EC) is one of the important physical properties of minerals and rocks that can be used to characterize the composition and structure of the deep interior of the Earth.Theoretical studies have predicted that the…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Mako Inada , Yoshiyuki Okuda , Kenta Oka , Hideharu Kuwahara , Steeve Gréaux , Kei Hirose

We present a new model of electron transport in warm and hot dense plasmas which combines the quantum Landau-Fokker-Planck equation with the concept of mean-force scattering. We obtain electrical and thermal conductivities across several…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Nathaniel R. Shaffer , Charles E. Starrett

Electric, thermal and thermoelectric transport in correlated electron systems probe different aspects of the many-body dynamics, and thus provide complementary information. These are well studied in the low- and high-temperature limits,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-19 Woo-Ram Lee , Alexander M. Finkel'stein , Karen Michaeli , Georg Schwiete
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