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Equations of state of poly- α -methylstyrene and polystyrene: First-principles calculations versus precision measurements

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We show with a recently devised extended first-principles molecular dynamics method that calculated Hugoniots of poly-$\ensuremath{\alpha}$-methylstyrene agree well with precision experimental results of Kritcher et al. [Nature (London) 584, 51… Click to show full abstract

We show with a recently devised extended first-principles molecular dynamics method that calculated Hugoniots of poly-$\ensuremath{\alpha}$-methylstyrene agree well with precision experimental results of Kritcher et al. [Nature (London) 584, 51 (2020)] and D\"oppner et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 025001 (2018)]. The deviation is smaller than 0.8%. This agreement does not sensitively rely on the approximations in the employed first-principles methods as long as underlying physics are well described, as illustrated in the calculation of equation of state for polystyrene covering the warm dense regime. These results may stimulate a broad range of quantitative investigations on warm dense matter that were not thought possible before, and may thus afford a new prospect to the field of inertial confinement fusion and high-energy-density physics.

Keywords: polystyrene; physics; equations state; first principles; methylstyrene

Journal Title: Physical Review B
Year Published: 2021

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