Expanded Comment on: Optical Properties of Fluid Hydrogen at the Transition to a Conducting State

Isaac F. Silvera; Rachel Husband; Ashkan Salamat; Mohamed Zaghoo

Expanded Comment on: Optical Properties of Fluid Hydrogen at the Transition to a Conducting State

Materials Science 2016-08-17 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Authors: Isaac F. Silvera , Rachel Husband , Ashkan Salamat , Mohamed Zaghoo

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We comment on a recent paper published by McWilliams et al claiming that high-pressure/high-temperature hydrogen is a semi-conductor or semi-metal, in conflict with all earlier measurements on this system which show that it is metallic. We point out problems and inconsistencies and propose an alternate interpretation such that their results can be compatible with the observation of metallic hydrogen.

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fluid hydrogen optical properties conducting state high-pressure high-temperature hydrogen semi-conductor semi-metal metallic hydrogen

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@article{arxiv.1608.04479,
  title  = {Expanded Comment on: Optical Properties of Fluid Hydrogen at the Transition to a Conducting State},
  author = {Isaac F. Silvera and Rachel Husband and Ashkan Salamat and Mohamed Zaghoo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.04479},
  year   = {2016}
}

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7 pages, 6 figures

Expanded Comment on: Optical Properties of Fluid Hydrogen at the Transition to a Conducting State

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