[HTML][HTML] Viscosities of hcp iron alloys under Earth's inner core conditions

Y Xu, Y He, S Sun, W Zhang, W Dai, DY Kim, H Li - Geoscience Frontiers, 2025 - Elsevier
Viscosity is critical for controlling the dynamics and evolution of the Earth's inner core (IC).
The viscosities of hexagonal close-packed (hcp) and body-centred cubic (bcc) Fe were …

Structural study of hcp and liquid iron under shock compression up to 275 GPa

S Singh, R Briggs, MG Gorman, LX Benedict, CJ Wu… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We combine nanosecond laser shock compression with in situ picosecond x-ray diffraction
to provide structural data on iron up to 275 GPa. We constrain the extent of hcp-liquid …

A closer examination of the nature of atomic motion in the interfacial region of crystals upon approaching melting

J Zhang, H Zhang, JF Douglas - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Although crystalline materials are often conceptualized as involving a static lattice
configuration of particles, it has recently become appreciated that string-like collective …

Effects of cooperative diffusion on rheological and mechanical behavior of bcc Fe: A combined approach using elastically collective nonlinear Langevin equation …

TD Cuong, AD Phan - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Anomalous seismic data on Earth's inner core have challenged our understanding of
mineral physics for decades. According to recent ab initio studies, bcc Fe may be a key to …

New Constraints on the Melting Temperature and Phase Stability of Shocked Iron up to 270 GPa Probed by Ultrafast X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

S Balugani, JA Hernandez, N Sévelin-Radiguet… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Studying the properties and phase diagram of iron at high-pressure and high-temperature
conditions has relevant implications for Earth's inner structure and dynamics and the …

Superionic crystal: How to model its relaxation and diffusion via a microscopic theory of glass-forming liquids

TD Cuong, AD Phan - Physical Review E, 2025 - APS
UO 2 is a crucial nuclear material but its behaviors are elusive due to the impact of
superionic diffusion. Herein, we introduce a simple but effective theoretical model to …

Thermoelastic properties of B2‐type FeSi under deep Earth conditions: Implications for the compositions of the ultralow‐velocity zones and the inner core

T Liu, Z **g - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The CsCl‐type (B2) phase of FeSi (B2‐FeSi) has been proposed as a candidate
phase in the ultralow‐velocity zones (ULVZs) at the base of the lower mantle and in the …

Reassessment of Birch's law on hcp‐Fe from ultrasonic sound velocity measurement and implications on the velocity profiles of Earth's inner core

S Wang, S Chen, X Qi, M Xu, T Yu… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We performed in situ X‐ray diffraction and ultrasonic sound velocity measurements on hcp‐
Fe up to 15 GPa, 873 K in a multi‐anvil apparatus. The elastic moduli and their pressure and …

Melting Temperature of Iron Under the Earth's Inner Core Condition from Deep Machine Learning

F Wu, CZ Wang, KM Ho, S Wu… - ar** - 高压物理学报, 2024 - gywlxb.cn
Under the conditions of high temperature and high pressure, a series of materials transform
into superionic states, which fall between the solid and liquid states and are widely believed …