A new experimental setup combining X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (XPCS) in the hard x-ray regime and a high-pressure sample environment is developed to monitor the pressure dependence of the internal motion of complex systems down to the atomic scale in the multi-gigapascal range, from room temperature to 600K. The high flux of coherent high energy x-rays at 4th generation synchrotron source solves the problems caused by the absorption of the Diamond Anvil Cells used to generate the high pressure, enabling the measurement of the intermediate scattering function over 6 orders of magnitude in time, from 10−3 s to 103s. The constraints posed by the high-pressure generation such as the preservation of X-ray coherence, as well as the sample, pressure and temperature stability, are discussed, and the feasibility of high-pressure XPCS is demonstrated through results obtained on metallic glasses.
@article{arxiv.2402.05298,
title = {High-pressure X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy at fourth-generation synchrotron sources},
author = {Antoine Cornet and Alberto Ronca and Jie Shen and Federico Zontone and Yuriy Chushkin and Marco Cammarata and Gaston Garbarino and Michael Sprung and Fabian Westermaier and Thierry Deschamps and Beatrice Ruta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.05298},
year = {2026}
}