Response to Comment on "Insulator-metal transition in dense fluid deuterium".

Celliers, Peter M; Millot, Marius; Brygoo, Stephanie; McWilliams, R Stewart; Fratanduono, Dayne E; Rygg, J Ryan; Goncharov, Alexander F; Loubeyre, Paul et al. · Science · 2019

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Abstract

In their comment, Desjarlais <i>et al</i> claim that a small temperature drop occurs after isentropic compression of fluid deuterium through the first-order insulator-metal transition. We show that their calculations do not correspond to the experimental thermodynamic path, and that thermodynamic integrations with parameters from first-principles calculations produce results in agreement with our original estimate of the temperature drop.

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