Heather D. Whitley

TL;DR: In this paper, the ground and excited state properties of small helium clusters, 4He_N, containing nanoscale planar aromatic molecules have been studied with quantum Monte Carlo methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a process to simultaneously optimize laser and target parameters to meet a variety of design goals, and found optimized designs for iron targets and determined that the appropriate dopant, for inferring plasma conditions, depends on the goal temperature.

TL;DR: Using laser-generated shock waves, the authors measured pressure, density, and temperature of LiH on the principal Hugoniot between 260 and 1100 GPa (2.6-11 Mbar) and on a second-shock Hugo up to 1400 GPa to near fivefold compression, extending the maximum pressure reached in non-nuclear experiments by a factor of two.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present density functional theory calculations of phosphorus dopants in bulk silicon and of several properties relating to their use as spin qubits for quantum computation, using an explicit treatment for the phosphorus donor and examined the detailed electronic structure of the system as a function of the isotropic doping fraction.

TL;DR: Three new equation-of-state models that are consistent with theoretical calculations and experiment are developed and applied to 1D hydrodynamic simulations of a polar direct-drive NIF implosion, demonstrating that these new models are now available for future ICF design studies.