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Solubility of Iron in Metallic Hydrogen and Stability of Dense Cores in Giant Planets
Sean Wahl, Hugh F. Wilson, Burkhard Militzer
The formation of the giant planets in our solar system, and likely a majority of giant exoplanets, is commonly explained by the accretion of nebular hydrogen and helium onto a larg…
Superionic to superionic phase change in water: consequences for the interiors of Uranus and Neptune
Hugh F. Wilson, Michael L. Wong, Burkhard Militzer
Using density functional molecular dynamics free energy calculations, we show that the body-centered-cubic phase of superionic ice previously believed to be the only phase is in fa…
H4O and other hydrogen-oxygen compounds at giant-planet core pressures
Shuai Zhang, Hugh Wilson, Kevin Driver +1
Water and hydrogen at high pressure make up a substantial fraction of the interiors of giant planets. Using ab initio random structure search methods we investigate the ground-stat…
Ab Initio Simulations of Hot, Dense Methane During Shock Experiments
Benjamin L. Sherman, Hugh F. Wilson, Dayanthie Weeraratne +1
Using density functional theory molecular dynamics simulations, we predict shock Hugoniot curves of precompressed methane up to 75000 K for initial densities ranging from 0.35 to 0…
Rocky core solubility in Jupiter and giant exoplanets
Hugh F. Wilson, Burkhard Militzer
Gas giants are believed to form by the accretion of hydrogen-helium gas around an initial protocore of rock and ice. The question of whether the rocky parts of the core dissolve in…
Erosion of icy cores in giant gas planets
Hugh F. Wilson, Burkhard Militzer
Using ab initio simulations we investigate whether water ice is stable in the cores of giant planets, or whether it dissolves into the layer of metallic hydrogen above. By Gibbs fr…