Accurate prediction of the thermal and electrical conductivities of materials under extremely high temperatures is essential in high-energydensity physics.These properties govern processes such as stellar core dynamic...Accurate prediction of the thermal and electrical conductivities of materials under extremely high temperatures is essential in high-energydensity physics.These properties govern processes such as stellar core dynamics,planetary magnetic field generation,and laserdriven plasma evolution.However,first-principles methods like Kohn-Sham(KS)density functional theory(DFT)face challenges in predicting these properties due to prohibitively high computational costs.We propose a scheme that integrates the Kubo formalism with a mixed stochastic-deterministic DFT(mDFT)method,which substantially enhances efficiency in computing thermal and electrical conductivities of dense plasmas under extremely high temperatures.As a showcase,this approach enables ab initio calculations of the thermal and electrical conductivities of aluminum(Al)up to 1000 eV.Compared to traditional transport models,our first-principles results reveal significant deviations in the thermal and electrical conductivities of Al within the warm dense matter regime,underscoring the importance of accounting for quantum effects when investigating these transport properties of warm dense matter.展开更多
基金supported by the NSFC Excellence Research Group Program(Grant Nos.12588301 and 12588201)the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2025YFB3003603)supported by the Foundation of National Key Laboratory of Computational Physics,China.
摘要Accurate prediction of the thermal and electrical conductivities of materials under extremely high temperatures is essential in high-energydensity physics.These properties govern processes such as stellar core dynamics,planetary magnetic field generation,and laserdriven plasma evolution.However,first-principles methods like Kohn-Sham(KS)density functional theory(DFT)face challenges in predicting these properties due to prohibitively high computational costs.We propose a scheme that integrates the Kubo formalism with a mixed stochastic-deterministic DFT(mDFT)method,which substantially enhances efficiency in computing thermal and electrical conductivities of dense plasmas under extremely high temperatures.As a showcase,this approach enables ab initio calculations of the thermal and electrical conductivities of aluminum(Al)up to 1000 eV.Compared to traditional transport models,our first-principles results reveal significant deviations in the thermal and electrical conductivities of Al within the warm dense matter regime,underscoring the importance of accounting for quantum effects when investigating these transport properties of warm dense matter.