K Hoshino 2009 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21 474212 doi:10.1088/0953-8984/21/47/474212
K Hoshino
Show affiliationsHow the study of liquid metals has progressed in the past three decades is summarized briefly from a personal point of view. It is emphasized that, by ab initio molecular-dynamics (MD) simulations, we can now obtain the electronic states as well as the structure of liquid metals at the same time and therefore we can understand the characteristic features of the microscopic atomic structure and bonding states in real space. As examples we show the results of our ab initio MD simulations for liquid phosphorus, liquid tellurium and liquid carbon at high pressures.
61.25.Mv Liquid metals and alloys
71.22.+i Electronic structure of liquid metals and semiconductors and their alloys
Issue 47 (25 November 2009)
Received 6 April 2009, in final form 15 July 2009
Published 5 November 2009
K Hoshino 2009 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21 474212
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