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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…
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…
Sequestration of noble gases in giant planet interiors
Hugh F. Wilson, Burkhard Militzer
The Galileo probe showed that Jupiter's atmosphere is severely depleted in neon compared to protosolar values. We show, via ab initio simulations of the partitioning of neon betwee…