Abstract
Nuclear dynamics in dense hydrogen, which is determined by the key physics of large-angle scattering or many-body collisions between particles, is crucial for the dynamics of planet's evolution and hydrodynamical processes in inertial confinement confusion. Here, using improved ab initio path-integral molecular dynamics simulations, we investigated the nuclear quantum dynamics regarding transport behaviors of dense hydrogen up to the temperatures of 1 eV. With the inclusion of nuclear quantum effects (NQEs), the ionic diffusions are largely higher than the classical treatment by the magnitude from 20% to 146% as the temperature is decreased from 1 eV to 0.3 eV at 10 g/cm3, meanwhile, electrical and thermal conductivities are significantly lowered. In particular, the ionic diffusion is found much larger than that without NQEs even when both the ionic distributions are the same at 1 eV. The significant quantum delocalization of ions introduces remarkably different scattering cross section between protons compared with classical particle treatments, which explains the large difference of transport properties induced by NQEs. The Stokes-Einstein relation, Wiedemann-Franz law and isotope effects are re-examined, showing different behaviors in nuclear quantum dynamics.
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Introduction
Nuclear quantum nature, especially for protons, manifests its significant effects on the ionic structures, phase diagram and ionic dynamics1,2,3,4,5. A lot of researches focus on the nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) such as quantum fluctuations and zero-point motion on the structures of dense hydrogen6,7,8,9,10, revealing many intriguing physics. However, the nuclear quantum dynamics such as ionic quantum transport is rarely studied because of the computational and the theoretical challenges. Only at low temperatures, the nuclear quantum dynamics was investigated. For example, large deviation for ionic diffusion and thermal conductivity of para-hydrogen is found below 32 K induced by NQEs compared with the classical-particle treatment11. At high temperatures, in particular in warm dense regime (i.e., above 1000 K), ions are usually considered as distinguishable classical particles by assuming the quantum fluctuations or quantum collisions are negligible. However, even for the collision energies up to 10 eV, it has been shown that elastic collision cross sections for protons and hydrogen atoms can be very different in the quantum and classical theory12, indicating the possible failure of classical treatment for nuclear motion in warm dense regime.
Dense hydrogen plays a crucial role in understanding the material behaviors under extreme conditions13,14 and has important applications in energy sources15 and astrophysics16,17. The associated ionic and electronic transport properties are the key to tracing the dynamics of capsule implosion of inertial confinement fusion (ICF)15, modeling plasma processes18 and the interior structure and evolution of giant planets and exoplanets19,20,21. More exact transport properties such as thermal conductivities and electron-ion relaxation rates are required because they can remarkably alter the dynamics of planet's evolution22 and hydrodynamical processes in ICF23. The core pressures of some newly discovered exoplanets are estimated even up to 19 Gbar21, while the temperature may be several thousand Kelvins. Thanks to the recent progress in experimental techniques, one could get access to this previously inaccessible regime of phase diagram of hydrogen through a laser-induced shock wave loading of precompressed samples24,25. However, theoretically understanding the nature of hydrogen under the ultra-high pressures is still rare and a great challenge. Density functional theory based ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) has been widely used to investigate transport properties such as ionic diffusion, electrical conductivity of dense matter at high temperatures26,27,28. In viewpoint of collision physics, both the ionic and electronic transport properties depend strongly on the scattering cross sections between particles. In usual ab initio MD simulations, the corresponding scattering cross sections are statistically obtained from classical particle dynamics simulations, in which the quantum dynamics such as tunnelling is absent. The role of quantum dynamics in dense hydrogen is of great interest and expected to give a new perspective on NQEs.
Path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) with imaginary-time path discretization has provided a proper theoretical description of the nuclear quantum fluctuation and delocalization29,30. Further, the adiabatic centroid PIMD is proposed to obtain the real-time dynamics of nuclei in the quasiclassical approximation31. Its accuracy has been extensively studied for the bound systems32,33. However, for the continuum states, for example quantum tunnelling through a potential barrier, whether the centroid PIMD is accurate is already an open question. Since the ionic dynamics is strongly dependent on the processes of both bound and continuum states, it is urgent to understand this issue, looking forward to reach progress.
In this work, we further developed the adiabatic centroid PIMD approach and the accuracy was demonstrated from quantum tunnelling of a particle through the potential barrier. Within this theoretical framework, the nuclear quantum dynamics of dense hydrogen was investigated, showing more interesting intrinsic physics. Both the ionic and electronic transport properties were greatly affected by NQEs, which enables us to understand the properties of dense matter more profoundly.
Results
Structure and ionic transport properties
For dense hydrogen, five state points along the 10 g/cm3 isochore from 0.1 eV to 1 eV and three state points along the 1 eV isotherm from 10 g/cm3 to 100 g/cm3 were studied. The main motivation for choice of these parameters is that in ICF a solid cryogenic shell of DT fuel in capsule needs to pass through a low temperature and high density stage before achieving the final state of the high density and temperature34. The transport properties at this stage are essential to understand the whole implosion process. Besides, the cores of some exoplanets are likely to be under the conditions studied here13. The structural properties were calculated using the primitive scheme29 of PIMD and the real-time quantum dynamics of nuclei was obtained through the improved ab initio centroid PIMD (see Methods). Exchange effects between protons are neglected in this study35. Firstly, we calculated the self-diffusion coefficient and the shear viscosity at 10 g/cm3 with temperatures from 0.1 eV to 1 eV and the results are shown in Fig. 1a and 1b. When taking into account the quantum collision properly, the ionic diffusion is much higher than that with classical treatment for ions. We can see that the self-diffusion coefficient at 0.1 eV from the centroid PIMD simulations is two orders of magnitude larger than the MD value. This large increment is likely to arise from the phase transition from solid to liquid with the inclusion of NQEs, which is confirmed directly by ionic trajectory analyses (see the Supplementary Information for simulated movies). The difference introduced by NQEs is also clearly demonstrated by radial distribution functions (RDFs) of hydrogen nuclei in Fig. 2a. Note that the RDF of hydrogen nuclei with MD method exhibits long-range ordered solid-like character at the low temperature of 0.1 eV, which is not visible in RDF obtained from the PIMD calculations. In the quantum-mechanical perspective, it can be understood from that the protons tunnel through the energy barriers and move away from their equilibrium positions in crystal structure at 0.1 eV, as appeared in hydrogen-bonded systems at low temperatures5. Our results accord with the conclusions in Ref. 36, i.e., the melting temperature of hydrogen is lowered by NQEs. In addition, we note that although hydrogen is in solid state at 0.1 eV in classical simulation, the self-diffusion coefficient of protons does not vanish, which arises from the presence of atomic diffusion in solid hydrogen when the temperature is close to melting point37.
The self-diffusion coefficients obtained via centroid PIMD are substantially larger than the classical particle value over the whole temperature range of 0.1–1 eV, as shown in Fig. 1a. The difference is from 146% at 0.3 eV, 61% at 0.5 eV to 40% at 0.7 eV. There is still a large difference of 20% even at the high temperature of 1 eV. It is not open-and-shut because the RDFs from the MD and PIMD calculations are very close at 0.3 eV and almost identical when the temperature is up to 1 eV (see Fig. 2a). We note that the large-angle scattering between ions is dominant at such high densities considered here. The pronounced quantum nuclear wave scattering calculation leads to a smaller large-angle scattering cross section between ions than the classical particle scattering calculation and thus increases the mean free path of ions. Therefore, the ions diffuse more easily and the classical particle treatment of protons substantially underestimates the ionic diffusion.
The shear viscosities η calculated from the Green-Kubo relation27 at the density of 10 g/cm3 are shown in Fig. 1b. Corresponding to the diffusions D, the viscosities from centroid PIMD are smaller than those from MD, but they become closer at high temperatures. In addition, the viscosities are also deduced from the Stokes-Einstein (SE) relation with slip boundary condition38. As discussed in Ref. 39, the SE relation, which is exact for the Brownian particles, is not valid in strongly coupled regime. It is shown in Fig. 1c that the values of Dηa/kBT (a is the effective atomic diameter and defined by the position of the first peak of RDF) from both MD and PIMD calculations are much higher than the SE relation value 1/2π. At low temperatures, pronounced NQEs induce more deviation from SE relation, indicating that the correlated time of particles in PIMD simulations (non-Markov dynamics) is longer than that of classical treatment.
The largely reduced and broadened first peak of RDF from PIMD calculations at 0.1 eV and 10 g/cm3 indicates the significant nuclear quantum delocalization, which becomes weaker with increasing temperature and cannot be observed at 1 eV finally. Besides, RDFs show much pronounced nuclear quantum character with increasing density (see Fig. 2b). When the density is increased up to 100 g/cm3, there is a distinct difference of RDFs between the PIMD and MD calculations due to NQEs even at the high temperature of 1 eV. Meanwhile, the isotope substitutions provide a clear demonstration of isotope effects on nuclear spacial distribution of condensed hydrogen. Since the tritium nuclei is the heaviest one and has the shortest thermal de Broglie wavelength, RDFs of the tritons are more structured than those of the other two isotopes.
Electronic transport properties
Of our particular interest is whether the NQEs have evident effects on the electronic transport properties as profound as nuclei exhibits. To shed light on this issue, we calculated the electrical conductivity and optical absorption coefficient of dense hydrogen. In order to avoid the artificial drop at low frequency due to the finite number of atoms in the simulations, we employed the Drude formula to estimate the dc conductivity at a zero frequency limit26. It can be clearly seen from Fig. 3 that with the inclusion of NQEs, the low-frequency dependent electrical conductivity σ(ω) exhibits a different trend compared with the results from the MD simulations, which directly leads to the different dc conductivity σdc(ω → 0) except for the state point of 10 g/cm3 and 1 eV. The dc conductivities of dense liquid hydrogen from the PIMD calculations are largely suppressed compared with the MD value by 25% at 10 g/cm3, 0.3 eV and 18% at 100 g/cm3, 1 eV. A visible larger optical absorption for hydrogen of 10 g/cm3 at 0.3 eV and 100 g/cm3 at 1 eV is displayed in Fig. 3. It should be noted that the differences at 10 g/cm3 and 0.1 eV originate from the different structures (solid in classical simulation and liquid in quantum simulation mentioned above). It is well known that NQEs will introduce more disorder for the systems, lowering the melting point and critical point9. In fact, NQEs introduce ionic delocalization and closer ionic distances, as shown in Fig. 2, which produce more localized electrons around the nuclei, evidenced by the distribution of charge density and electron localization function (see Fig. 4). The stronger localized electrons might enhance the optical oscillator strength and optical absorption cross sections of relative high frequencies. In addition, NQEs cause nonuniform broadening of energy bands because of the anharmonic effects, resulting significant difference in the electronic density of states (DOS). In particular, the DOS around Fermi level are decreased by NQEs (See the Supplementary Information).
In Fig. 5, it is shown that the electronic thermal conductivities with the inclusion of NQEs are smaller than the value obtained from MD simulations as the electrical conductivity exhibits. We also computed the Lorenz number which is the ratio between electrical and thermal conductivity divided by the temperature40. According to the Wiedemann-Franz law, the Lorenz number is constant and reaches 2.44 × 10−8 ΩWK−2 for the degenerate and coupled plasma41. Compared to the good agreement with Wiedemann-Franz law for the MD results, the Lorenz number with the inclusion of NQEs deviates slightly from the ideal value at low temperatures, where the ionic structures are significantly different.
Discussion
We have investigated the nuclear quantum dynamics in transport behaviors of dense hydrogen using the improved centroid PIMD simulations. The complex transport behavior shows that even when the NQEs affect little on the static structures (10 g/cm3 and 1 eV), the ionic diffusions are still largely higher due to the lower collision cross sections with the inclusion of NQEs. In addition, electrical and thermal conductivities have a pronounced decrease in quantum simulations as well. The SE relation is not valid in strongly coupled regime and the Lorenz number deviates from the degenerate limit at low temperatures. We have shown that the quantum nuclear character induces complex behaviors for both the ionic and electronic transport of dense hydrogen.
Methods
Centroid path-integral molecular dynamics for quantum tunneling
In the primitive PIMD formalism29, the N-particle quantum system is isomorphic to a classical system consisting of N ring polymers of length P with harmonic intrapolymeric forces. Thus the static properties of the quantum system can be obtained through MD simulations of its isomorphic classical system. In the adiabatic centroid PIMD scheme31, the normal mode transformation diagonalizes the harmonic bead coupling. The centroid and non-centroid modes are mass-scale separated. The nuclear quantum dynamics is obtained in the quasiclassical approximation through driving the centroid move in real-time in the centroid effective potential generated by all non-centroid modes. Taking for example the case of one kind of particle in the system, the coefficient of stiffness of harmonic interaction is , where P is the number of beads in the ring polymer, kB is the Boltzmann constant, T is the target temperature of the simulated system, g is the total degrees of freedom of ions, E0 is the average kinetic energy of each ion determined by the target temperature T. In this scheme, ωP keeps constant for a given temperature T regardless of the circumstance of the ions.
Here we propose a new scheme in order to make the size of ring polymer is more close to λ as the instantaneous kinetic energy of ions is decreased. For each ion, ωP depends linearly on its instantaneous kinetic energy E(t) during simulations, , where t is the simulation time step, two parameters a and b are determined by two boundary conditions. The first one is when E(t) = E0, ωP equals to the value obtained from the traditional formulation, i.e., , resulting in a + b = 1; the second one is ωP reaches its minimum when E(t) = 0 and this minimum makes the radius of gyration of ring polymer up to half of the de Broglie wavelength of the corresponding ion. In PIMD simulations, the initial ring polymer is generated according to the Levy-Brown procedure42 and the corresponding radius of gyration of ring polymer . Since ωP ∝ T, we have . Then a and b can be obtained according to the second boundary condition, that is, b = (2Rg0/λ)2, a = 1 − (2Rg0/λ)2, where Rg0 is the radius of gyration of ring polymer when E(t) = E0, λ is the de Broglie wavelength of the corresponding ion. In this way, the size of ring polymer is more close to λ as the instantaneous kinetic energy of ions is decreased. The importance of this new scheme can be illustrated by considering the dynamics of a hydrogen atom tunnels through a Gaussian potential barrier using the improved centroid PIMD approach. The dependence of the transmission probability on the ratio of the incident energy E to the height of barrier U0 is in good agreement with the WKB semi-classical approximation43 and the exact results through solving the Schrödinger equation when λ is less than the half-height width of the potential barrier (see Supplementary Information). Therefore, this new scheme is more suitable for simulating the nuclear quantum dynamics such as ionic diffusions, since they are dependent on the same physics of scattering or collision.
Electronic structure calculations and MD simulations
All the PIMD and MD simulations were performed using modified Quantum-ESPRESSO package44. A periodic supercell including 250–432 atoms was employed according to different densities, which can ensure convergence of both ionic and electronic properties with good accuracy (see Supplementary Information for convergence tests). The Coulombic pseudopotential45 and the generalized-gradient approximation46 for exchange-correlation potential were adopted. The kinetic energy cutoff was set from 200 to 400 Ry according to different densities. Electronic distribution was subject to Fermi-Dirac statistics47. The Brillouin zone was sampled using the Γ point in MD simulations. Denser k-point grids were used to calculate electronic properties.
Within the framework of PIMD, the structural and thermodynamical properties were calculated using the primitive scheme29, while the real-time quantum dynamics of nuclei was obtained through the ab initio improved centroid PIMD. The self-diffusion coefficient was calculated from the slope of the centroid mean square displacement. The shear viscosity was obtained from the autocorrelation function of the off-diagonal components of the stress tensor27. Langevin thermostat48 was employed to overcome the nonergodic problem, which not only produces a canonical ensemble and compensates the calculated errors45, but also gives us an efficient unified description from cold condensed matter to hot dense regime45,49. Langevin thermostat was applied only to each noncentroid degree of freedom because thermostats would disturb the dynamical properties of the centroids. The Trotter number was set to 16 after a convergence test. Time step of 2–3 a.u. was used in our ab initio PIMD calculations with 40000 steps after thermalization, while the smaller time steps of 0.2–0.3 a.u. with 5 × 105 steps and a centroid adiabaticity parameter of 20 were adopted in the centroid PIMD simulations in order to decouple the centroid mode from other normal modes.
The electrical and thermal conductivity and optical absorbtion coefficient were calculated via the Kubo-Greenwood formula50,51 with ABINIT package52. The electrical conductivity and optical absorption coefficient were calculated with a 0.03 a.u. width of Gaussian smearing and k-point sets of 6 × 6 × 6 and 8 × 8 × 8 for 10 g/cm3 and 100 g/cm3, respectively. Here, 10 atomic configurations along the trajectories were employed. In PIMD simulations, the electronic transport properties were obtained by averaging over both PIMD time steps and imaginary time slices.
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This work is supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) under Grant No. 2013CB922203, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11104351, 11274383. Calculations were carried out at the Research Center of Supercomputing Application, NUDT.
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D.K., J.D. and J.Y. designed the research. D.K. and J.D. modified the code. D.K., H.S. and W.C. performed all calculations. D.K., H.S., J.D., Z.Z., Y.H. and J.Z. analysed the data. D.K., J.D., Z.Z. and J.Y. wrote the paper. All authors reviewed the manuscript.
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Kang, D., Sun, H., Dai, J. et al. Nuclear quantum dynamics in dense hydrogen. Sci Rep 4, 5484 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep05484
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