Physicist and former Young CAS PI Sigbjørn Bore has spent the autumn exploring one of nature’s most familiar yet least understood materials: ice. His goal? To make theory meet reality by improving how we model ice from the ground up.
Can Ice Be Described from First Principles?
Can Ice Be Described from First Principles?
Principal investigators
Sigbjørn Løland Bore
Abstract
Ice plays a crucial role on Earth, from its presence in the polar regions to its impact on global climate and sea levels. First principle calculations, which use fundamental principles of physics to model the behavior of atoms and molecules, are commonly used to study ice. However, these calculations do not accurately predict the temperatures and pressures at which ice melts. In this project, I will develop new empirical corrections to first principle calculations, which aim to bridge the gap between what is experimentally known about ice and what is theoretically predicted. This will enable reliable computational microscopy of ice under conditions inaccessible by experiments.
Fellows
Affiliated researchers
Jürgen
Gauß
Anders
Johansson
News
This week, Sigbjørn Løland Bore is kicking off his research stay at CAS, where he and his team aim to develop a machine learning model that can represent the intricate physics of ice from first principles.