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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 107, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.185901
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- DFG [SFB 652, SPP 1488]
- North-German Supercomputing Alliance HLRN
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
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We present a method to calculate ionic conductivities of complex fluids from ab initio simulations. This is achieved by combining density functional theory molecular dynamics simulations with polarization theory. Conductivities are then obtained via a Green-Kubo formula using time-dependent effective charges of electronically screened ions. The method is applied to two different phases of warm dense water. We observe large fluctuations in the effective charges; protons can transport effective charges greater than +e for ultrashort time scales. Furthermore, we compare our results with a simpler model of ionic conductivity in water that is based on diffusion coefficients. Our approach can be directly applied to study ionic conductivities of electronically insulating materials of arbitrary composition, e. g., complex molecular mixtures under such extreme conditions that occur deep inside giant planets.
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