2 papers
physics.geo-ph2026
A quiet quantum revolution in Earth's deep interior
Renata Wentzcovitch, Laura Cobden, Christine Houser +2
The Earth's lower mantle hosts a subtle but pervasive quantum phenomenon: the pressure-induced spin crossover of iron in its dominant minerals, bridgmanite and ferropericlase. In t…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Fe2+ partitioning in Al-free pyrolite: consequences for seismic velocities and heterogeneities
Jingyi Zhuang, Renata Wentzcovitch
Iron partitioning among the main lower mantle phases, bridgmanite (Bm) and ferropericlase (Fp), has non-monotonic behavior owing to the high-spin to low-spin crossover in ferrous i…