Structure measurements of compressed liquid boron at megabar pressures

  • Sebastien Le Pape
  • , Alfredo A. Correa
  • , Carsten Fortmann
  • , Paul Neumayer
  • , Tilo Döppner
  • , Paul Davis
  • , Tammy Ma
  • , Laurent Divol
  • , Kai Uwe Plagemann
  • , E. Schwegler
  • , Ronald Redmer
  • , Siegfried Glenzer

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Abstract

We report on the first measurements of the structure of compressed liquid boron, as it crosses the melt line in dynamic shock-compression experiments at a pressure of 100 GPa. Temporally, spectrally and angularly resolving x-ray scattering provides an independent and accurate measurement of the compression factor 1.5 and the electron density of 4 × 1023 cm-3 at moderate temperatures of 0.2-1 eV. At these conditions, the elastic scattering measurements provide the structure factor and indicate the liquid compressed phase with a coordination number of 8.3 in good agreement with predictions from first-principles molecular dynamic simulations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number085011
JournalNew Journal of Physics
Volume15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2013
Externally publishedYes

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