On the Electride Nature of Na‐hP4
Racioppi, S., Storm, C. V., McMahon, M. I., & Zurek, E. (2023). On the Electride Nature of Na‐hP4. In Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202310802
The problem with Jupiter
Ab initio determination of iron melting at terapascal pressures and Super-Earths core crystallization
González-Cataldo, F., & Militzer, B. (2023). Ab initio determination of iron melting at terapascal pressures and Super-Earths core crystallization. In Physical Review Research (Vol. 5, Issue 3). American Physical Society (APS). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.5.033194
Yin, H., Shang, J. K., Blackman, E. G., Collins, G. W., & Aluie, H. (2023). Energy transfer and scale dynamics in 2D and 3D laser-driven jets. In Physics of Plasmas (Vol. 30, Issue 9). AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0161028
Allibert, L., Landeau, M., Röhlen, R., Maller, A., Nakajima, M., & Wünnemann, K. (2023). Planetary Impacts: Scaling of Crater Depth From Subsonic to Supersonic Conditions. In Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (Vol. 128, Issue 8). American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023je007823
Militzer, B. (2023). Study of Jupiter’s Interior with Quadratic Monte Carlo Simulations. In The Astrophysical Journal (Vol. 953, Issue 1, p. 111). American Astronomical Society. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ace1f1
Dale, K. I., Rubie, D. C., Nakajima, M., Jacobson, S., Nathan, G., Golabek, G. J., Cambioni, S., & Morbidelli, A. (2023). An improved model of metal/silicate differentiation during Earth’s accretion. In Icarus (Vol. 406, p. 115739). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115739
Thomas Duffy, professor of geosciences at Princeton University, was awarded as an American Geophysical Union College of Fellows Distinguished Lecturer in 2023-24, in Earth Interior, Mineral and Rock Physics for his abstract, “Journey to the Center of a Super-Earth.” He was also selected as a 2023 Mercator Fellow in the Matter Under Planetary Interior Conditions Research Unit by the German Research Foundation.
Ian Ocampo, a graduate student in the High-Pressure Mineral Physics Laboratory at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2023-24 Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship.
Structural and Thermodynamic Properties of Magnesium-Rich Liquids at Ultrahigh Pressure
González-Cataldo, F., & Militzer, B. (2023). Structural and Thermodynamic Properties of Magnesium-Rich Liquids at Ultrahigh Pressure. In Minerals (Vol. 13, Issue 7, p. 885). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13070885
Danae Polsin received the 2023 Outstanding Young Alum Award from the SUNY Geneseo Alumni Association
Danae Polsin, a scientist in the High-Energy-Density Experimental Physics Group at the Laser Laboratory for Energetics and an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester, received the 2023 Outstanding Young Alum Award from the SUNY Geneseo Alumni Association.
Spatio‐Temporal Coarse‐Graining Decomposition of the Global Ocean Geostrophic Kinetic Energy
Buzzicotti, M., Storer, B. A., Khatri, H., Griffies, S. M., & Aluie, H. (2023). Spatio‐Temporal Coarse‐Graining Decomposition of the Global Ocean Geostrophic Kinetic Energy. In Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (Vol. 15, Issue 6). American Geophysical Union (AGU). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023ms003693
Sara Seager received an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Toronto in 2023
For her leadership in the fields of astrophysics and planetary science and as a leader in the field of exoplanet atmospheres, Sara Seager received a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from the University of Toronto in June 2023.
Phase transitions and spin state of iron in FeO under the conditions of Earth’s deep interior
Greenberg, E., Nazarov, R., Landa, A., Ying, J., Hood, R. Q., Hen, B., Jeanloz, R., Prakapenka, V. B., Struzhkin, V. V., Rozenberg, G. Kh., & Leonov, I. V. (2023). Phase transitions and spin state of iron in FeO under the conditions of Earth’s deep interior. In Physical Review B (Vol. 107, Issue 24). American Physical Society (APS). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.107.l241103
Specific Heat of Electron Plasma Waves
Rygg, J. R., Celliers, P. M., & Collins, G. W. (2023). Specific Heat of Electron Plasma Waves. In Physical Review Letters (Vol. 130, Issue 22). American Physical Society (APS). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.130.225101
Militzer, B., & Hubbard, W. B. (2023). Relation of Gravity, Winds, and the Moment of Inertia of Jupiter and Saturn. In The Planetary Science Journal (Vol. 4, Issue 5, p. 95). American Astronomical Society. https://doi.org/10.3847/psj/acd2cd
Second CMAP Annual Meeting
The second CMAP Annual Meeting, hosted at the University of Rochester on River Campus, was a gathering of the CMAP team partner organizations. We welcomed guests from California State University Northridge; University of Chicago; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois at Chicago; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Sandia National Laboratories; University of California, Santa Cruz; Imperial College London; and University of Oxford.
View photos from the event.
Intercalating Helium into A-Site Vacant Perovskites
Racioppi, S., Miao, M., & Zurek, E. (2023). Intercalating Helium into A-Site Vacant Perovskites. In Chemistry of Materials (Vol. 35, Issue 11, pp. 4297–4310). American Chemical Society (ACS). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00353
Maureen Zhang won second place in the category of physics and astronomy at ISEF Regeneron 2023
Maureen Zhang, a CMAP Research Experience for High Schoolers (REH) program alumna, won 2nd place in the category of physics and astronomy at ISEF Regeneron 2023, a highly competitive international science competition for high school students with nearly 3,000 student attendees. M. Zhang presented a machine learning project to determine the number of exoplanets in planetary systems.
Jupiter at its core remains a mystery to science
Jessica Shang selected as a 2022 Rochester Engineering Society Young Engineer of the Year Finalist
Jessica Shang, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester was selected as a 2022 Rochester Engineering Society Young Engineer of the Year Finalist.
Wang, B., Hilleke, K. P., Wang, X., Polsin, D. N., & Zurek, E. (2023). Topological electride phase of sodium at high pressures and temperatures. In Physical Review B (Vol. 107, Issue 18). American Physical Society (APS). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.107.184101
Lherm, V., & Deguen, R. (2023). Velocity field and cavity dynamics in drop impact experiments. In Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Vol. 962). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.297
Storer, B. A., & Aluie, H. (2023). FlowSieve: A Coarse-Graining Utility for Geophysical Flows on the Sphere. In Journal of Open Source Software (Vol. 8, Issue 84, p. 4277). The Open Journal. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04277
May 24-25, 2023
Rochester, NY
BY INVITATION ONLY
Why the observed spin evolution of older-than-solar-like stars might not require a dynamo mode change
Kotorashvili, K., Blackman, E. G., & Owen, J. E. (2023). Why the observed spin evolution of older-than-solar-like stars might not require a dynamo mode change. In Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Vol. 522, Issue 1, pp. 1583–1590). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad981
Ion and electron acoustic bursts during anti-parallel magnetic reconnection driven by lasers
Zhang, S., A. Chien, L. Gao, H. Ji, E. G. Blackman, R. Follett, D. H. Froula, J. Katz, C. Li, A. Birkel, R. Petrasso, J. Moody, and H. Chen. Ion and electron acoustic bursts during anti-parallel magnetic reconnection driven by lasers. Nat. Phys. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-01972-1
Gong, X., D. N. Polsin, R. Paul, B. J. Henderson, J. H. Eggert, F. Coppari, R. F. Smith, J. R. Rygg, and G. W. Collins. X-Ray Diffraction of Ramp-Compressed Silicon to 390 Gpa. Physical Review Letters (2023). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.076101
Afreen Syeda received an Outstanding Poster Award at the NNSA’s 2023 Stewardship Science Academic Programs Symposium
Afreen Syeda, a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester, received an Outstanding Poster Award at the NNSA’s 2023 Stewardship Science Academic Programs Symposium in February 2023.
Miki Nakajima, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester, is the recipient of a 2023 NSF CAREER award for her project, “CAREER: GLOW: Investigation on the evolution of magnetic fields of early Earth and beyond with cutting-edge research opportunities for future scientists.”
Non-thermal electron acceleration from magnetically driven reconnection in a laboratory plasma
Chien, A., L. Gao, S. Zhang, H. Ji, E. G. Blackman, W. Daughton, A. Stanier, A. Le, F. Guo, R. Follett, H. Chen, G. Fiksel, G. Bleotu, R. C. Cauble, S. N. Chen, A. Fazzini, K. Flippo, O. French, D. H. Froula, J. Fuchs, S. Fujioka, K. Hill, S. Klein, C. Kuranz, P. Nilson, A. Rasmus, R. Takizawal. Non-thermal electron acceleration from magnetically driven reconnection in a laboratory plasma. Nat. Phys. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01839-x
The messy death of a multiple star system and the resulting planetary nebula as observed by JWST
Jessica Shang, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester was elected Member-at-Large (a 2-year term) of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (GSCCM).
The messy death of a multiple star system and the resulting planetary nebula as observed by JWST
De Marco, O., Akashi, M., Akras, S. et al. The messy death of a multiple star system and the resulting planetary nebula as observed by JWST. Nat Astron 6, 1421–1432 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01845-2
Hu, S. X., D. T. Bishel, D. A. Chin, P. M. Nilson, V. V. Karasiev, I. E. Golovkin, M. Gu, S. B. Hansen, D. I. Mihaylov, N. R. Shaffer, S. Zhang, T. Walton. Probing atomic physics at ultrahigh pressure using laser-driven implosions. Nat Commun 13, 6780 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34618-6
Jeanloz, R. (2022). Scaling relations for combined static and dynamic high-pressure experiments. In Y. Fei and M. Walter (Eds.), Static and Dynamic High Pressure Mineral Physics (pp. 135-146). Cambridge University Press.
Duffy, T. S. (2022). New analysis of shock compression data for selected silicates. In Y. Fei and M. Walter (Eds.), Static and Dynamic High Pressure Mineral Physics (pp. 113-134). Cambridge University Press.
R. N. Markwick, A. Frank, J. Carroll-Nellenback, E. G. Blackman, P. M. Hartigan, S. V. Lebedev, D. R. Russell, J. W. D. Halliday, and L. G. Suttle. Morphology of shocked lateral outflows in colliding hydrodynamic flows. Physics of Plasmas 29, 102901 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0095166
Eva Zurek named 2022 APS Fellow
Eva Zurek, professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has been named an American Physical Society (APS) Fellow for 2022. The APS Fellowship Program was created in 1921 for those in the physics community to recognize peers who have contributed to advances in physics through original research, innovative applications, teaching, and leadership.
Andrea Kritcher
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
November 11, 2022
4:00 – 5:00 PM ET
Richard Kraus selected as recipient of the inaugural American Physical Society’s 2023 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award
Richard Kraus, research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is the recipient of the inaugural American Physical Society’s 2023 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award for Studies of Matter at Extreme High Pressure Conditions. Kraus is recognized for his outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions by an early-career scientist to studies of matter at extreme high-pressure conditions.
Poster Award at AAPPS DPP 2022
Poster Award for “The Impact of Magnetic Fields on the Melting Curves of Warm Dense Matter” at the Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics in October 2022. Authors: I. N. Erez, R. Betti, J. R. Davies, J. L. Peebles, and P.-A. Gourdain.
Aluie, H., S. Rai, H. Yin, A. Lees, D. Zhao, S. Griffies, A. Adcroft, and J. Shang. Effective Drift Velocity from Turbulent Transport by Vorticity. Physical Review Fluids 7, 104601 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.104601
Novel fabrication tools for dynamic compression targets with engineered voids using photolithography methods
Pandolfi, S., T. Carver, D. Hodge, A. F. T. Leong, K. Kurzer-Ogul, P. Hart, E. Galtier, D. Khaghani, E. Cunningham, B. Nagler, H. J. Lee, C. Bolme, K. Ramos, K. Li, Y. Liu, A. Sakdinawat, S. Marchesini, P. M. Kozlowski, C. B. Curry, F.-J. Decker, S. Vetter, J. Shang, H. Aluie, M. Dayton, D. S. Montgomery, R. L. Sandberg, and A. E. Gleason, “Novel fabrication tools for dynamic compression targets with engineered voids using photolithography methods”, Review of Scientific Instruments 93, 103502 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0107542
Hodge, D. S., A. F. T. Leong, S. Pandolfi, K. Kurzer-Ogul, D. S. Montgomery, H. Aluie, C. Bolme, T. Carver, E. Cunningham, C. B. Curry, M. Dayton, F.-J. Decker, E. Galtier, P. Hart, D. Khaghani, H. J. Lee, K. Li, Y. Liu, K. Ramos, J. Shang, S. Vetter, B. Nagler, R. L. Sandberg, A. E. Gleason, “Multi-frame, ultrafast, x-ray microscope for imaging shockwave dynamics,” Opt. Express 30, 38405-38422 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.472275
F. García-Rubio, R. Betti, J. Sanz, and H. Aluie. Theory of the magnetothermal instability in coronal plasma flows. Physics of Plasmas 29, 092106 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0109877
Experimental observation of open structures in elemental magnesium at terapascal pressures
Experimental observation of open structures in elemental magnesium at terapascal pressures
Gorman, M. G., S. Elatresh, A. Lazicki, M. M. E. Cormier, S. Bonev, D. McGonegle, R. Briggs, A. L. Coleman, S. D. Rothman, L. Peacock, J. Bernier, F. Coppari, D.. G. Braun, J. R. Rygg, D. E. Fratanduono, R. Hoffmann, G. W. Collins, J. S. Wark, R. F. Smith, J. H. Eggert, M. I. McMahon. Experimental observation of open structures in elemental magnesium at terapascal pressures. Nat. Phys. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01732-7
What does it take to become a scientist, part 2?
Storer, B.A., M. Buzzicotti, H. Khatri, S. M. Griffies, H. Aluie. Global energy spectrum of the general oceanic circulation. Nat Commun 13, 5314 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33031-3
Shocked silica aerogel radiance transition
Henderson, B. J., J. R. Rygg, M. C. Marshall, M. K. Ginnane, L. E. Hansen, E. Davies, P. M. Celliers, G. W. Collins (2022). Shocked silica aerogel radiance transition, 132 (9), 095902. Journal of Applied Physics. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0105194
Hussein Aluie, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester and staff scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, has been recognized with the 2021 Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), an American Geophysical Union journal.
Diamond, M.R., G. Shen , D. Y. Popov, C. Park , S. D. Jacobsen, R. Jeanloz (2022). Electron density change across the pressure-induced iron spin transition, 129 (2), 025701. Physical Review Letters. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.025701
Kim, Y.-J., B. Militzer, B. Boates, S. Bonev, P. M. Celliers, G. W. Collins, K. P. Driver, D. E. Fratanduono, S. Hamel, R. Jeanloz, J. R. Rygg, D. C. Swift, J. H. Eggert, M. Millot (2022). Evidence for Dissociation and Ionization in Shock Compressed Nitrogen to 800 Gpa, 129 (1), 015701. Physical Review Letters. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.015701
Hao Yin, PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester, was selected to participate in the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), to be held July 31 – August 12, 2022, at the Q-Center in St. Charles, IL.
Polsin, D. N., A. Lazicki, X. Gong, S. J. Burns, F. Coppari, L. E. Hansen, B. J. Henderson, M. F. Huff, M. I. McMahon, M. Millot, R. Paul, R. F. Smith, J. H. Eggert, G. W. Collins, J. R. Rygg (2022). Structural complexity in ramp-compressed sodium to 480 GPa, 13, 2534. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29813-4
First CMAP Annual Meeting
The first CMAP Annual Meeting, hosted at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, was a gathering of the CMAP team from MIT, Princeton, the Universities of California at Berkeley and Davis, the University at Buffalo, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. We welcomed guest presenters from Howard University and Washington State University as well. President Sarah Mangelsdorf gave opening remarks. View photos from the event.
What does it take to become a scientist, part 1?
Acharya, N., H. Aluie & J. K. Shang (2022). Numerical investigation of laser-driven shock interaction with a deformable particle, 29, 052302. Physics of Plasmas. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0083076
Structure and density of silicon carbide to 1.5 TPa: Implications for extrasolar planets
Kim, D., R. F. Smith, I. Ocampo, F. Coppari, M.C. Marshall, M. K. Ginnane, J. K. Wicks, S. J, Tracy, M. Millot, A. Lazicki, J.R. Rygg, J. H. Eggert, T. S. Duffy. Structure and density of silicon carbide to 1.5 TPa and implications for extrasolar planets. Nat Commun 13, 2260 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29762-y
Jessica Shang, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester was selected as a 2022 NSF CAREER Award recipient for her project “Multiscale modeling of perivascular flow in the brain.”
Hussein Aluie, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester and staff scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, has been selected as one of up to two Young Observers in the U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM) program in 2022.
Eva Zurek elected Vice Chair of APS/DCOMP
Eva Zurek, professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has been elected by the Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP) of the American Physical Society (APS) as its next Vice Chair. She will serve in the DCOMP Executive Committee as Vice-Chair for one year starting in May 2022, then for one year as Chair-Elect, followed by one year as Chair, and then as Past Chair in the final year.
May 5-6, 2022
Rochester, NY
BY INVITATION ONLY
Lherm, V., R. Deguen, T. Alboussiere, M. Landeau (2022). Rayleigh Taylor instability in impact cratering experiments. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 937, A20. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.111
Kalkan, B., B.K. Godwal, J. Yan, R. Jeanloz (2022). High-pressure phase transitions and melt structure of Pb O2: An analog for silica, 105, 064111. Phys. Rev. B. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.064111
Zhang, S., M. A. Morales, R. Jeanloz, M. Millot, S. X. Hu & E. Zurek (2022). Nature of the bonded-to-atomic transition in liquid silica to TPa pressures, 131, 071101. Journal of Applied Physics. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0081293
Can a planet have a mind of its own?
Large planets may not form fractionally large moons
Nakajima, M., H. Genda, E. Asphaug & S. Ida (2022). Large planets may not form fractionally large moons. Nature Communications, 13, 568. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28063-8
Wu, J., F. Gonzalez-Cataldo, F. Soubiran & B. Militzer (2022). The phase diagrams of beryllium and magnesium oxide at megabar pressures. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 34(14), 144003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ac4b2a
Gleason, A. E., D. R. Rittman, C. A. Bolme, E. Galtier, H. J. Lee, E. Granados, S. Ali, A. Lazicki, D. Swift, P. Celliers, B. Militzer, S. Stanley, W.L. Mao (2022). Dynamic compression of water to conditions in ice giant interiors. Sci Rep 12, 715 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04687-6
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.