Planetary Mineral Physics and Geophysics

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Publications

Wilson, A. J., Davies, C. J., Walker, A. M., & Alfè, D. (2025). Constraining Earth’s core composition from inner core nucleation. Nature Communications, 16(1), 7685. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62841-4

Wilson, A. J., Pozzo, M., Davies, C. J., Walker, A. M., & Alfè, D. (2025). The effect of compositional fluctuations in a liquid Fe–O alloy on the nucleation of Earth’s inner core. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 20386. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-07258-1

Walker, A. M., Davies, C. J., Wilson, A. J., & Bergman, M. I. (2025). A non-equilibrium slurry model for planetary cores with application to Earth’s F-layer. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 481(2311), 20240505. doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024.0505

Wilson, A., Davies, C., Walker, A., Pozzo, M., Alfè, D., & Deuss, A. F. (2025). The formation and evolution of Earth’s inner core. Nature Reivews Earth and Environment, 6, 140–154. doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00639-6

Pommier, A., Tauber, M.J., Davies, C.J., Wilson, A.J., Renggli, C., Reitze, M., Bullock. E., (2025), Electrical Properties of Alkaline Earth Sulfides and Implications for the Interior of Mercury. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. doi.org/10.1029/2024JE008651

Davies, C. J., Pommier, A., Greenwood, S., & Wilson, A. (2024). Thermal and magnetic evolution of Mercury with a layered Fe-Si (-S) core. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 641, 118812. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118812

Wilson, A. J., Pozzo, M., Davies, C. J., Walker, A. M., & Alfè, D. (2023). Examining the power supplied to Earth’s dynamo by magnesium precipitation and radiogenic heat production. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 343, 107073. doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2023.107073

Wilson, A. J., Alfè, D., Walker, A. M., & Davies, C. J. (2023). Can homogeneous nucleation resolve the inner core nucleation paradox?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 614, 118176. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118176

Wilson, A. J., Pozzo, M., Alfè, D., Walker, A. M., Greenwood, S., Pommier, A., & Davies, C. J. (2022). Powering Earth’s ancient dynamo with silicon precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(22), e2022GL100692. doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100692

Wilson, A. J., Walker, A. M., Alfè, D., & Davies, C. J. (2021). Probing the nucleation of iron in Earth’s core using molecular dynamics simulations of supercooled liquids. Physical Review B, 103(21), 214113. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.214113

Wilson, A., & Stixrude, L. (2021). Entropy, dynamics, and freezing of CaSiO3 liquid. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 302, 1-17. doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.03.015

Citron, R. I., Lourenço, D. L., Wilson, A. J., Grima, A. G., Wipperfurth, S. A., Rudolph, M. L., … & Montési, L. G. (2020). Effects of heat‐producing elements on the stability of deep mantle thermochemical piles. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(4), e2019GC008895. doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008895

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