Approaches for reducing the insulator-metal transition pressure in hydrogen
Abstract
Two possible techniques for reducing the external pressure required to induce the insulator-metal transition in solid hydrogen are described. One uses impurities to lower the energy of the metallic phase relative to that of the insulating phase. The other utilizes a negative pressure induced in the insulating phase by electron-hole pairs, created either with laser irradiation or pulsed synchrotron sources.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- January 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983arim.rept.....C
- Keywords:
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- Hydrogen;
- Insulators;
- Metals;
- Pressure Reduction;
- Energy Levels;
- Impurities;
- Laser Outputs;
- Synchrotrons;
- Solid-State Physics