Approaches for Reducing the Insulator-Metal Transition Pressure in Hydrogen
- 25 April 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 50 (17), 1305-1308
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.50.1305
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.Keywords
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