Optical properties of high pressure liquid hydrogen across molecular dissociation

Abstract

Optical properties of compressed fluid hydrogen in the region where dissociation and metallization is observed are computed by ab-initio methods and compared to recent experimental results. We confirm that above 3000 K both processes are continuous while below 1500K the first order phase transition is accompanied by a discontinuity of the DC conductivity and the thermal conductivity, while both the reflectivity and absorption coefficient vary rapidly but continuously. Our results support the recent analysis of NIF experiments (P. Celliers et al, Science 361, 677-682 (2018)) which assigned the inception of metallization to pressures where the reflectivity is about 0.3. Our results also support the conclusion that the temperature plateau seen in laser-heated DAC experiments at temperatures higher than 1500 K corresponds to the onset of of optical absorption, not to the phase transition.

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