Physics at extreme conditions

Atoms in a advanced pattern

The research in the unit Physics at Extreme Conditions is aimed at understanding the stability and properties of materials at ultra-high pressure and temperature conditions.

Extreme pressures and temperatures can strongly modify the potential energy surface of a given element combination and lead to the formation of new phases with functional properties. We are in particularly interested in exploiting extreme pressures and temperatures as thermodynamic variables to greatly enhance the likelihood of synthesising not only thermodynamically stable, but also so-called metastable materials. For this exploration, we use state-of-the-art theoretical tools, in particular density functional theory based computation, as well as novel approaches, including machine learning and artificial intelligence. We actively develop methods that can more reliably take into account the effect of high temperature and complex interactions between electrons on materials properties. We use the generated knowledge in our strong collaborations with experimental researchers and industry.

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News

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Successful outcomes for IFM's materials research in WASP-WISE pilot call

WASP and WISE have recently awarded grants to nine collaborative projects, three of which include participants from the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM) at .

Florian Trybel

The collaboration pushing back the boundaries of physics

Theoretician Florian Trybel has an irreplaceable role in creating new materials. Together with his experimental research colleague in Scotland he aims to expand the possibilities of materials in extreme conditions.

LiU Theorists provide computational insight into the properties of novel ultra-incompressible, hard and superconducting W-N materials

There is an enormously growing demand for materials capable of withstanding extreme conditions, in particular advanced hard and highly electrically conducting materials.

Publications

2025

Umbertoluca Ranieri, Akun Liang, Charles Lamb, James Spender, Sarah Bolton, Andrey Aslandukov, Bernhard Massani, Ferenc Tasnadi, Pierre-Olivier Autran, James A. D. Ball, Angelika D. Rosa, Bihan Wang, Florian Trybel, Dominique Laniel (2025) Journal of the American Chemical Society (Article in journal)
Yuqing Yin, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Ferenc Tasnadi, Igor Abrikosov, Andrey Aslandukov, Alena Aslandukova, Fariia Iasmin Akbar, Wenju Zhou, Florian Knoop, Dominique Laniel, Anna Pakhomova, Timofey Fedotenko, Konstantin Glazyrin, Gaston Garbarino, Haixing Fang, Natalia Doubrovinckaia (2025) Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 147 (Article in journal)
Lukas Bruening, Nityasagar Jena, Pascal L. Jurzick, Elena Bykova, Nico Giordano, Mohamed Mezouar, Igor Abrikosov, Maxim Bykov (2025) Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 64, Article e202506406 (Article in journal)
Andrey Aslandukov, Yuqing Yin, Maxim Bykov, Alena Aslandukova, Fariia I. Akbar, Eleanor Lawrence Bright, Igor A. Abrikosov, Natalia Doubrovinckaia, Leonid Dubrovinsky (2025) Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 64, Article e202506334 (Article in journal)
Davide Sangiovanni, Adrian Kjellén, Florian Trybel, L. J. S. Johnson, Magnus Odén, Ferenc Tasnadi, Igor Abrikosov (2025) Acta Materialia, Vol. 294, Article 121121 (Article in journal)
Rohit Babar, Adam Ganyecz, Igor Abrikosov, Gergely Barcza, Viktor Ivády (2025) npj 2D Materials and Applications, Vol. 9, Article 33 (Article in journal)
Ghulam Abbas Gilani, Oscar Bulancea Lindvall, Joel Davidsson, Rickard Armiento, Igor A. Abrikosov (2025) Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 126, Article 154001 (Article in journal)
Danial Shafizadeh, Son Tien Nguyen, Igor Abrikosov, Ivan Gueorguiev Ivanov (2025) Physical Review B, Vol. 111, Article 165201 (Article in journal)
Boburjon Mukhamedov, Ferenc Tasnadi, Igor Abrikosov (2025) Materials & design, Vol. 253, Article 113865 (Article in journal)
Jiajun Qin, Jia Zhang, Xianjie Liu, Yu Wang, Heyong Wang, Utkarsh Singh, Yanyan Wang, Haoliang Wang, Tianxiang Hu, Yiqiang Zhan, Yipeng Tang, Bin Hu, Constantin Bach, Carsten Deibel, Wei-Xin Ni, Sergey Simak, Igor Abrikosov, Mats Fahlman, Feng Gao (2025) Nature Materials, Vol. 24, p. 778-784 (Article in journal)
Niko T. Flosbach, Lukas Bruening, Pascal L. Jurzick, Elena Bykova, Marcus Ekholm, Igor Abrikosov, Mohammad Amirabbasi, Mohamed Mezouar, Bjoern Wehinger, Nico Giordano, Timofey Fedotenko, Vitali Prakapenka, Stella Chariton, Mathias S. Wickleder, Maxim Bykov (2025) Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 64, Article e202422929 (Article in journal)
William Stenlund, Joel Davidsson, Rickard Armiento, Viktor Ivády, Igor Abrikosov (2025) Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 308, Article 109468 (Article in journal)
Dominique Laniel, Florian Trybel, Wenju Zhou, Andrey Aslandukov, James Spender, Ferenc Tasnadi, Timofey Fedotenko, Umbertoluca Ranieri, Akun Liang, Alena Aslandukova, Fariia I. Akbar, Yuqing Yin, Stella Chariton, Anna Pakhomova, Gaston Garbarino, Mohamed Mezouar, Michael Hanfland, Vitali Prakapenka, Igor Abrikosov, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Natalia Doubrovinckaia (2025) Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 35, Article 2416892 (Article in journal)

2024

Steffen Richter, Sean Knight, Oscar Bulancea-Lindvall, Sai Mu, Philipp Kühne, Megan Stokey, Alexander Ruder, Viktor Rindert, Viktor Ivády, Igor A. Abrikosov, Chris G. Van de Walle, Mathias Schubert, Vanya Darakchieva (2024) Physical Review B, Vol. 109, Article 214106 (Article in journal)
Yuqing Yin, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Andrey Aslandukov, Alena Aslandukova, Timofey Fedotenko, Konstantin Glazyrin, Gaston Garbarino, Igor Abrikosov, Natalia Dubrovinskaia (2024) Physics and chemistry of minerals, Vol. 51, Article 39 (Article in journal)
Oscar Bulancea Lindvall, Joel Davidsson, Ivan Gueorguiev Ivanov, Adam Gali, Viktor Ivády, Rickard Armiento, Igor Abrikosov (2024) Physical Review Applied, Vol. 22, Article 034056 (Article in journal)
Oscar Bulancea-Lindvall, Joel Davidsson, Ivan G. Ivanov, Adam Gali, Viktor Ivády, Rickard Armiento, Igor A. Abrikosov (2024) Physical Review Applied, Vol. 22, Article 034056 (Article in journal)
Hongwei Lei, Utkarsh Singh, Fuxiang Ji, Tinghao Lin, Libor Kobera, Yuequn Shang, Xinyi Cai, Weihua Ning, Andrii Mahun, Sabina Abbrent, Zuojun Tan, Jiri Brus, Dehui Li, Sergey Simak, Igor Abrikosov, Feng Gao (2024) Small, Vol. 20, Article 2404188 (Article in journal)
Rohit Babar, Gergely Barcza, Anton Pershin, Hyoju Park, Oscar Bulancea Lindvall, Gergo Thiering, Ors Legeza, Jamie H. Warner, Igor Abrikosov, Adam Gali, Viktor Ivády (2024) npj Computational Materials, Vol. 10, Article 184 (Article in journal)
Yuqing Yin, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Andrey Aslandukov, Alena Aslandukova, Fariia Iasmin Akbar, Wenju Zhou, Michael Hanfland, Igor Abrikosov, Natalia Doubrovinckaia (2024) SOLIDS, Vol. 5, p. 333-340 (Article in journal)

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