APS March Meeting 2018

March 5th - 9th, 2018 - Los Angeles, CA

Abstracts presented by the Wentzcovitch Group:

1. Ab initio study of water speciation in forsterite
2. Importance of van der Waals interaction on structural, vibrational, and thermodynamics properties of NaCl
3. Pre-melting hcp to bcc Transition in Beryllium
4. Thermoelastic properties of the “new aluminous” (NAL) phase
5. Evolutionary Optimization of PAW Data-sets for Ultra-high Pressure Simulations
6. Breakdown of Minimal Mean Free Path Theory in MgSiO₃ Perovskite
7. Post-perovskite transition in (Al,Fe)-bearing bridgmanite
8. Ab initio search for low-pressure analogs of MgSiO₃ post-perovskite at ultrahigh pressures

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