| Structure and elasticity of MgO at high pressure BB Karki, L Stixrude, SJ Clark, MC Warren, GJ Ackland, J Crain American Mineralogist 82 (1-2), 51-60, 1997 | 489 | 1997 |
| Elastic instabilities in crystals from ab initio stress-strain relations BB Karki, GJ Ackland, J Crain Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 9 (41), 8579, 1997 | 441 | 1997 |
| High-pressure lattice dynamics and thermoelasticity of MgO BB Karki, RM Wentzcovitch, S De Gironcoli, S Baroni Physical Review B 61 (13), 8793, 2000 | 355 | 2000 |
| Origin of lateral variation of seismic wave velocities and density in the deep mantle S Karato, BB Karki Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 106 (B10), 21771-21783, 2001 | 347 | 2001 |
| Structure and freezing of MgSiO3 liquid in Earth's lower mantle L Stixrude, B Karki Science 310 (5746), 297-299, 2005 | 331 | 2005 |
| High‐pressure elastic properties of major materials of Earth's mantle from first principles BB Karki, L Stixrude, RM Wentzcovitch Reviews of Geophysics 39 (4), 507-534, 2001 | 315 | 2001 |
| First-principles determination of elastic anisotropy and wave velocities of MgO at lower mantle conditions BB Karki, RM Wentzcovitch, S De Gironcoli, S Baroni Science 286 (5445), 1705-1707, 1999 | 276 | 1999 |
| Thermoelastic Properties of -Perovskite: Insights on the Nature <?format ?>of the Earth’s Lower Mantle RM Wentzcovitch, BB Karki, M Cococcioni, S De Gironcoli Physical review letters 92 (1), 018501, 2004 | 271 | 2004 |
| Thermodynamics of silicate liquids in the deep Earth L Stixrude, N de Koker, N Sun, M Mookherjee, BB Karki Earth and Planetary Science Letters 278 (3-4), 226-232, 2009 | 243 | 2009 |
| Ab initio studies of high-pressure structural transformations in silica BB Karki, MC Warren, L Stixrude, GJ Ackland, J Crain Physical Review B 55 (6), 3465, 1997 | 195 | 1997 |
| Thermal conductivity of periclase (MgO) from first principles S Stackhouse, L Stixrude, BB Karki Physical review letters 104 (20), 208501, 2010 | 190 | 2010 |
| Elastic properties of orthorhombic MgSiO3 perovskite at lower mantle pressures BB Karki, L Stixrude, SJ Clark, MC Warren, GJ Ackland, J Crain American Mineralogist 82 (5-6), 635-638, 1997 | 183 | 1997 |
| First-principles simulations of liquid silica: Structural and dynamical behavior at high pressure BB Karki, D Bhattarai, L Stixrude Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 76 (10), 104205, 2007 | 177 | 2007 |
| Ab initio lattice dynamics of perovskite at high pressure BB Karki, RM Wentzcovitch, S De Gironcoli, S Baroni Physical Review B 62 (22), 14750, 2000 | 167 | 2000 |
| Ab initio elasticity of three high‐pressure polymorphs of silica BB Karki, L Stixrude, J Crain Geophysical Research Letters 24 (24), 3269-3272, 1997 | 165 | 1997 |
| Thermodynamics, structure, dynamics, and freezing of Mg2SiO4 liquid at high pressure NP de Koker, L Stixrude, BB Karki Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72 (5), 1427-1441, 2008 | 158 | 2008 |
| Viscosity of MgSiO3 liquid at Earth’s mantle conditions: Implications for an early magma ocean BB Karki, LP Stixrude Science 328 (5979), 740-742, 2010 | 153 | 2010 |
| Hydrous silicate melt at high pressure M Mookherjee, L Stixrude, B Karki Nature 452 (7190), 983-986, 2008 | 150 | 2008 |
| High pressure elastic anisotropy of MgSiO3 perovskite and geophysical implications RM Wentzcovitch, BB Karki, S Karato, CRS Da Silva Earth and Planetary Science Letters 164 (1-2), 371-378, 1998 | 110 | 1998 |
| Thermodynamics of the MgO–SiO2 liquid system in Earth's lowermost mantle from first principles N de Koker, BB Karki, L Stixrude Earth and Planetary Science Letters 361, 58-63, 2013 | 102 | 2013 |
Lars StixrudeProfessor of Geophysics and Mineral Physics, UCLAVerified email at epss.ucla.edu
