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Title: Evidence for a glassy state in strongly driven carbon

Journal Article · · Scientific Reports
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep05214· OSTI ID:1187971
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  1. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); AWE plc. (United Kingdom). Plasma Physics Department; Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
  2. Univ. of Warwick (United Kingdom)
  3. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)]; Gwangju Inst. of Science and Technology, Gwangju (Korea, Republic of); Inst. for Basic Science, Gwangju (Korea, Republic of)
  5. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  6. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  7. Helmholtz Inst., Jena (Germany)
  8. Sorbonne Univ. Paris Cedex (France)
  9. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
  10. Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
  11. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  12. Queen's Univ., Belfast, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
  13. Sorbonne Univ., Paris Cedex (France)
  14. Univ. of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
  15. GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany)
  16. Institut fur Physik, Rostock (Germany)
  17. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DES, Hamburg (Germany)
  18. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
  19. Univ. of Warwick (United Kingdom); Max-Planck Institut fur Physik, Dresden (Germany)
  20. European XFEL GmbH, Hamburg (Germany)
  21. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
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Here, we report results of an experiment creating a transient, highly correlated carbon state using a combination of optical and x-ray lasers. Scattered x-rays reveal a highly ordered state with an electrostatic energy significantly exceeding the thermal energy of the ions. Strong Coulomb forces are predicted to induce nucleation into a crystalline ion structure within a few picoseconds. However, we observe no evidence of such phase transition after several tens of picoseconds but strong indications for an over-correlated fluid state. The experiment suggests a much slower nucleation and points to an intermediate glassy state where the ions are frozen close to their original positions in the fluid.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
OSTI ID:
1187971
Journal Information:
Scientific Reports, Vol. 4, Issue 5; ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 28 works
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