Razvan Caracas - Selected Publications#

S2- and S3- radicals and the S4- polysulfide ion in lazurite, haüyne, and synthetic ultramarine blue revealed by resonance Raman spectroscopy
Stefan Farsang, R. Caracas, Tauji B. M. Adachi, Cedric Schnyder, Zoltan Zajacz
American Mineralogist, in press (2023)

The magma ocean was a huge helium reservoir in the early Earth
Ozge Ozgurel, Razvan Caracas
Geochemical Perspective Letters, 25, 46-590 (2023)

Predicting HP-HT Earth and Planetary Materials
Razvan Caracas, Chris Mohn, Zhi Li
in Celebrating the International Year of Mineralogy: Progress and Landmark Discoveries of the Last Decades, Eds. Luca Bindi, Giuseppe Grucciani, Springer Mineralogy Book series (2023)

No magma ocean surface after giant impacts between rocky planets
Razvan Caracas, Sarah T. Stewart
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 608, 118014 (2023)

Earth’s volatile depletion trend is consistent with a high-energy Moon-forming impact
Natalia V. Solomatova, Razvan Caracas
Communications Earth & Environment, 4, 38 (2023)

Jadeite and related species in shocked meteorites: Limitations on inference of shock conditions
Ioannis Baziotis, Stamatios Xydous, Angeliki Papoutsa, Jinping Hu, Chi Ma, Stephan Klemme, Jasper Berndt, Ludovic Ferrière, Razvan Caracas, Paul D Asimow
American Mineralogist, 107 (10), 1868-1877 (2022)

Stability of high-temperature salty ice suggests electrolyte permeability in water-rich exoplanet icy mantles
Jean-Alexis Hernandez, Razvan Caracas, and Stephane Labrosse
Nature Communications 13, 3303. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30796-5 (2022)

Ab initio study of the structure and relative stability of MgSiO4H2 polymorphs at high pressures and temperatures
Natalia V. Solomatova, Razvan Caracas, Luca Bindi, and Paul D. Asimow
American Mineralogist 107, 781-789. doi: 10.2138/am-2021-7937 (2022)

Critical point and supercritical regime of MgO
Tim F. J. Bögels and Razvan Caracas
Physical Review B, 105(6), 064105 (2022)

The Speciation and Coordination of a Deep Earth Carbonate-Silicate-Metal Melt
A. H. Davis, N. V. Solomatova, A. J. Campbell, and R. Caracas
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2021JB023314 (2022).

Genesis of a CO2-rich and H2O-depleted atmosphere from Earth’s early global magma ocean
Natalia V. Solomatova and Razvan Caracas
Science Advances, 7 (41), doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abj0406 (2021)

Thermophysical properties of hot fluid iron in the protolunar disk
Zhi Li and Razvan Caracas
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, (2021)

Analyzing melts and fluids from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations with the UMD package
Razvan Caracas, Anais Kobsch, Natalia V. Solomatova, Zhi Li, Francois Soubiran, and Jean-Alexis Hernandez
Journal of Visualized Experiments, 175, e61534, doi: 10.3791/61534 (2021)

"Earth cousins” are new targets for planetary materials research
Edwin Kite, Laura Kreidberg, Laura Schaefer, Razvan Caracas, and Marc Hirschmann
EOS, 102, doi: 10.1029/2021EO159473 (2021)

Ab initio Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo simulations of the liquid-vapor equilibrium and the critical point of sodium
Zhi Li, Christophe Winisdoerffer, François Soubiran, and Razvan Caracas
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 23, 311-319 (2021)

Buoyancy and structure of volatile-rich silicate melts
Natalia V. Solomatova and Razvan Caracas
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2020JB021045, (2020)

The critical point and the supercritical state of alkali feldspars: implications for the behavior of the crust during impacts
Anais Kobsch, Razvan Caracas
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 125, e2020JE006412 (2020).

Partial core vaporization during Giant Impacts inferred from the entropy and the critical point of iron
Zhi Li, Razvan Caracas, François Soubiran
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 547, 116463 (2020).

Stability and Solid Solutions of Hydrous Alumino-Silicates in the Earth’s Mantle
Wendy R. Panero, Razvan Caracas
Minerals, 10, 4, 330, (2020).
doi: 10.3390/min10040330

Carbon speciation and solubility in silicate melts
Natalia V. Solomatova, Razvan Caracas, Ronald E. Cohen
in Carbon in Earth’s Interior, Eds: Craig E. Manning, Jung-Fu Lin, Wendy L. Mao
Geophysical Monograph Series, American Geophysical Union, 2020.
doi: 10.1002/9781119508229.ch16

The Shock Physics of Giant Impacts: Key Requirements for the Equations of State
Sarah T. Stewart, Erik J. Davies, Megan S. Duncan, Simon J. Lock, Seth Root, Joshua P. Townsend, Richard G. Kraus, Razvan Caracas, Stein B. Jacobsen
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2272, 1, 080003 (2020)

Pressure‐induced coordination changes in a pyrolitic silicate melt from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations
Natalia V. Solomatova, Razvan Caracas
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124 (2019), doi: 10.1029/2019JB018238

Melt-crystal density crossover in a deep magma ocean
Razvan Caracas, Kei Hirose, Ryuichi Nomura, Maxim D. Ballmer
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 516, 202-211 (2019)

Carbon sequestration during core formation implied by complex carbon polymerization
Natalia V. Solomatova, Razvan Caracas, and Craig E. Manning
Nature Communications, 10, 789 (2019)

Projector Augmented-Wave formulation of response to strain and electric field perturbation within the density-functional perturbation theory
A. Martin, M. Torrent, and R. Caracas
Physical Review B, 99, 094112 (2019)

High-pressure yield strength of rocksalt structures using quartz Raman piezometry
Bruno Reynard, R. Caracas, Herve Cardon, Gilles Montagnac, Sebastien Merkel
Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 351, 71-79, doi: 10.1016/j.crte.2018.02.001 (2019)

Anharmonic contribution to the stabilization of Mg(OH)2 from first principles
P. Trevino A. C. Garcia-Castro, S. López-Moreno, A. Bautista-Hernández, E. Bobocioiu, B. Reynard, R. Caracas, and A. H. Romero
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20, 17799-17808 (2018)

Proton dynamics and the phase diagram of dense water ice
Jean-Alexis Hernandez, R. Caracas
Journal of Physical Chemistry, 148, 214501 (2018)