Response to Comment on "Insulator-metal transition in dense fluid deuterium"
2019
SCIENCE
DOI
10.1126/science.aaw1970
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.