Ultracondensed Matter by Dynamic Compression

William J. Nellis

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780521519175
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108229463
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Physics
• Index: Physics

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• 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