Response to Comment on "Insulator-metal transition in dense fluid deuterium"
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 13:10
in Physics & Chemistry
In their comment, Desjarlais et al. 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.