Thermal energy transport in oxide nuclear fuel

DH Hurley, A El-Azab, MS Bryan, MWD Cooper… - Chemical …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
To efficiently capture the energy of the nuclear bond, advanced nuclear reactor concepts
seek solid fuels that must withstand unprecedented temperature and radiation extremes. In …

Synchrotron radiation techniques and their application to actinide materials

R Caciuffo, GH Lander, G van der Laan - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023‏ - APS
Research on actinide materials, both basic and applied, has been greatly advanced by the
general techniques available from high-intensity photon beams from x-ray synchrotron …

Symmetry breaking induced insulating electronic state in

J Liu, T Yu, J Li, J Wang, J Lai, Y Sun, XQ Chen, P Liu - Physical Review B, 2023‏ - APS
The recent experimental claim of room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductivity in a
Cu-doped lead-apatite (LK-99) has ignited substantial research interest in both experimental …

High-throughput determination of Hubbard and Hund values for transition metal oxides via the linear response formalism

GC Moore, MK Horton, E Linscott, AM Ganose… - Physical Review …, 2024‏ - APS
DFT+ U provides a convenient, cost-effective correction for the self-interaction error (SIE)
that arises when describing correlated electronic states using conventional approximate …

DFT+-type functional derived to explicitly address the flat plane condition

AC Burgess, E Linscott, DD O'Regan - Physical Review B, 2023‏ - APS
A DFT+ U-type corrective functional is derived from first principles to enforce the flat plane
condition on localized subspaces, thus dispensing with the need for an ad hoc derivation …

Interplay between multipolar spin interactions, Jahn-Teller effect, and electronic correlation in a insulator

D Fiore Mosca, LV Pourovskii, BH Kim, P Liu, S Sanna… - Physical Review B, 2021‏ - APS
In this work, we study the complex entanglement between spin interactions, electron
correlation, and Janh-Teller structural instabilities in the 5 d 1 J eff= 3 2 spin-orbit coupled …

Hubbard U through polaronic defect states

S Falletta, A Pasquarello - npj Computational Materials, 2022‏ - nature.com
Since the preliminary work of Anisimov and co-workers, the Hubbard corrected DFT+ U
functional has been used for predicting properties of correlated materials by applying on-site …

Nonuniversal structure of point defects in face-centered cubic metals

PW Ma, SL Dudarev - Physical Review Materials, 2021‏ - APS
Using ab initio density function theory calculations, we have determined the structure of self-
interstitial atom (SIA) defects in the most commonly occurring face-centered cubic (FCC) …

Structural and Electronic Intricacies of Cu-Doped Lead Apatite (LK-99): Implications for Potential Ambient-Pressure Superconductivity

J Li, Q An - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
The most recent discovery, the Cu-doped lead apatite “LK-99”, is a proposed room-
temperature superconductor operating under ambient pressure. However, this discovery has …

Type-I antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal

D Grassano, L Binci, N Marzari - Physical Review Research, 2024‏ - APS
Topological materials have been a main focus of studies in the past decade due to their
protected properties that can be exploited for the fabrication of new devices. Among them …