Ultracondensed Matter by Dynamic Compression

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-521-51917-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 484 g

Dynamic compression is an experimental technique with interdisciplinary uses, ranging from enabling the creation of ultracondensed matter under previously impossible conditions to understanding the likely cause of unusual planetary magnetic fields. Readers can now gain an intuitive understanding of dynamic compression; clear and authoritative chapters examine its history and experimental method, as well as key topics including dynamic compression of liquid hydrogen, rare gas fluids and shock-induced opacity. Through an up-to-date history of dynamic compression research, Nellis also clearly shows how dynamic compression addresses and will continue to address major unanswered questions across the scientific disciplines. The past and future role of dynamic compression in studying and making materials at extreme conditions of pressure, density and temperature is made clear, and the means of doing so are explained in practical language perfectly suited for researchers and graduate students alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nellis, William

Nellis, William J.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Physik unter extremen Bedingungen (Vakuum, Hohe Drücke)
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Sonnensystem: Sonne und Planeten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Basics of dynamic compression; 3. Generation of dynamic pressures; 4. Brief history of high-pressure research: 1643 to 1968; 5. Rare gas fluids; 6. Metallization of fluid hydrogen at 140 GPa; 7. Unusual magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune: metallic fluid H; 8. Shock-induced opacity in transparent crystals; 9. Metastable solid metallic hydrogen (MSMH); 10. Warm dense matter at shock pressures up to 20 TPa (200 Mbar); References; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Nellis, William J.
William Nellis is a Research Associate of the Department of Physics, Harvard University, Massachusetts, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, holder of the APS Duvall Award for Shock Compression Science, past-Chairman of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, past-President of the International Association of High Pressure Science and Technology and holder of its Bridgman Award. He has performed extensive dynamic compression research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, and published over 250 papers in various scientific journals.