Stable Solid Molecular Hydrogen above 900 K from a Machine-Learned Potential Trained with Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo
Hongwei Niu, Yubo Yang, Scott Jensen, Markus Holzmann, Carlo Pierleoni, David M. Ceperley
Abstract
We survey the phase diagram of high-pressure molecular hydrogen with path integral molecular dynamics using a machine-learned interatomic potential trained with quantum Monte Carlo forces and energies. Besides the HCP and C2/c-24 phases, we find two new stable phases both with molecular centers in the Fmmm-4 structure, separated by a molecular orientation transition with temperature. The high temperature isotropic Fmmm-4 phase has a reentrant melting line with a maximum at higher temperature (1450 K at 150 GPa) than previously estimated and crosses the liquid-liquid transition line around 1200 K and 200 GPa.
Topics & Concepts
Phase diagramMolecular dynamicsQuantum Monte CarloMonte Carlo methodMaterials scienceCondensed matter physicsPhase transitionIsotropyPhase (matter)DiffusionLennard-Jones potentialInteratomic potentialLine (geometry)Quantum phase transitionHydrogenThermodynamicsPhysicsQuantum mechanicsMathematicsGeometryStatisticsHigh-pressure geophysics and materialsMachine Learning in Materials ScienceCrystallography and molecular interactions