Response to Comment on "Insulator-metal transition in dense fluid deuterium"

Celliers, Peter M.; Millot, Marius; Brygoo, Stephanie; McWilliams, R. Stewart; Fratanduono, Dayne E.; Rygg, J. Ryan; Goncharov, Alexander F.; Loubeyre, Paul; Eggert, Jon H.; Peterson, J. Luc; Meezan, Nathan B.; Le Pape, Sebastien; Collins, Gilbert W.; Jeanloz, Raymond; Hemley, Russell J.
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.