The Anomalous Compressibility and Metallization of Deuterium under Shock-Wave Compression
Plasma Physics
2014-08-27 v1 Chemical Physics
Abstract
High values of deuterium compressibility under shock-wave compression, recently discovered in several experiments, are explained by an unusual dielectric-metal phase transition from a dense molecular gas into a liquid-metal atomic gas. This phase transition recently described by authors was named the dissociative phase transition (DPT). The same phase transition describes a significant scattering of experimentally measured densities within an area of anomalous compressibility.
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@article{arxiv.1408.2753,
title = {The Anomalous Compressibility and Metallization of Deuterium under Shock-Wave Compression},
author = {A. L. Khomkin and A. S. Shumikhin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2753},
year = {2014}
}