Goal: Map hydrogen into the quantum degenerate and blurred regime relevant to understanding the most abundant atom of the Universe.
Learn more by viewing the FPEOS Database for Warm Dense Matter Computation.
Research
CMAP, an NSF-designated Physics Frontiers Center, is one of the foundation’s first major initiatives in the field of high-energy-density sciences. We bring together researchers at Rochester, MIT, Princeton, the Universities of California at Berkeley and Davis, the University of Buffalo, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Our physicists, astrophysicists, and planetary scientists are working to understand the physics and astrophysical implications of matter under pressures so high that the structure of individual atoms is disrupted.
The impetus for the project includes two recent movements in science:
CMAP is poised to lead discoveries at the convergence of these two movements in science by combining our members’ institutional facilities and resources—including powerful lasers, pulsed-power, and x-ray beam technology—with fundamental research in four main areas.
Funding for our research is provided by the Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures (CMAP), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Physics Frontiers Center, under Award PHY-2020249. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.