Optical Properties of Fluid Hydrogen at the Transition to a Conducting State

McWilliams, R. Stewart; Dalton, D. Allen; Mahmood, Mohammad F.; Goncharov, Alexander F.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.255501

Title: Optical Properties of Fluid Hydrogen at the Transition to a Conducting State

Journal Article · Wed Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.255501· OSTI ID:1387997

McWilliams, R. Stewart ^[1]; Dalton, D. Allen ^[2]; Mahmood, Mohammad F. ^[3]; Goncharov, Alexander F. ^[4]

Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Washington D.C. (United States); Univ. of Edingburgh (United Kingdom); Howard Univ., Washington D.C. (United States)
Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Washington D.C. (United States)
Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Washington D.C. (United States); Howard Univ., Washington D.C. (United States)
Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Washington D.C. (United States); Chinese Academy of Science, Hefei (China); Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)

We use fast transient transmission and emission spectroscopies in the pulse laser heated diamond anvil cell to probe the energy-dependent optical properties of hydrogen at pressures of 10–150 GPa and temperatures up to 6000 K. Hydrogen is absorptive at visible to near-infrared wavelengths above a threshold temperature that decreases from 3000 K at 18 GPa to 1700 K at 110 GPa. Finally, transmission spectra at 2400 K and 141 GPa indicate that the absorptive hydrogen is semiconducting or semimetallic in character, definitively ruling out a first-order insulator-metal transition in the studied pressure range.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Energy Frontier Research in Extreme Environments (EFree)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Army Research Office (ARO); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

Grant/Contract Number:: FC52-08NA28554; SC0001057; NSF EAR-1015239; NSF EAR-1520648; NSF EAR/IF-1128867; 56122-CH-H

OSTI ID:: 1387997

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1258704

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 116, Issue 25; Related Information: EFree partners with Carnegie Institution of Washington (lead); California Institute of Technology; Colorado School of Mines; Cornell University; Lehigh University; Pennsylvania State University; ISSN 0031-9007

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