Thermal transport by electrons and ions in warm dense aluminum: A combined density functional theory and deep potential study

QR Liu and JY Li and MH Chen, MATTER AND RADIATION AT EXTREMES, 6, 026902 (2021).

DOI: 10.1063/5.0030123

We propose an efficient scheme that combines density functional theory (DFT) with deep potentials (DPs), to systematically study convergence issues in the computation of the electronic thermal conductivity of warm dense aluminum (2.7 g/cm(3) and temperatures ranging from 0.5 eV to 5.0 eV) with respect to the number of k-points, the number of atoms, the broadening parameter, the exchange-correlation functionals, and the pseudopotentials. Furthermore, we obtain the ionic thermal conductivity using the Green-Kubo method in conjunction with DP molecular dynamics simulations, and we study size effects on the ionic thermal conductivity. This work demonstrates that the proposed method is efficient in evaluating both electronic and ionic thermal conductivities of materials. (C) 2021 Author(s).

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