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Evidence for a glassy state in strongly driven carbon
- Abstract:
- 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.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1038/srep05214
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- Springer Nature
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- Scientific Reports More from this journal
- Volume:
- 4
- Article number:
- 5214
- Publication date:
- 2014-06-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2014-05-12
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2045-2322
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English
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- Brown, CR et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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