What can simulations predict?

• Volumes, bulk moduli

• Vibrational frequencies (phonon density of states)

• Elastic constants (seismic velocities)

• Heat capacities

• Free energies (phase diagrams)

• Defects

• Diffusion

• Viscosities

• Melting

• etc.

The fact that we can predict it does not make it right!

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