Metallic xenon. Polarizability. Equation of state

The paper presents the results of the experimental study of polarization bremsstrahlung profile halfwidth performed on free xenon clusters with various atom numbers. We used 0.7- and 0.3-keV electrons to excite mainly the core and the surface of the clusters, respectively. The halfwidth vs. atom number dependencies were found to be quite different for the 0.7- and 0.3-keV electrons. Analysis of the observed difference allowed us to conclude that the clusters with N = 2000-800...

We extend our previous approach (Eur. Phys. J. B, \textbf{74}, 63(2010)) to modeling correlated electronic states and the metal-insulator transition by applying the so-called \emph{statistically consistent Gutzwiller approximation} (SGA) to carry out self-consistent calculations of the renormalized single-particle Wannier functions in the correlated state. The transition to the Mott-Hubbard insulating state at temperature T=0 is of weak first order even if antiferromagnetism ...

Starting from the recently derived expression for the chemical potential of the electron gas on a 1D lattice,and a well known thermodynamical relation,we have derived the equation of state and the specific heat of the electron gas on a 1D lattice.

We present results of lattice dynamics calculations of Poisson's ratio (PR) for solid hydrogen and rare gas solids (He, Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe) under pressure. Using two complementary approaches - the semi-empirical many-body calculations and the first-principle density-functional theory calculations we found three different types of pressure dependencies of PR. While for solid helium PR monotonically decreases with rising pressure, for Ar, Kr, and Xe it monotonically increases wi...

In this paper, a recently developed analytical equation of state (EOS) is used to investigate the bulk modulus of compressed liquid cesium and to locate common compression factor and the bulk modulus quiescence point(s). This EOS is applied quick well to Na and Rb far from Tc. Bulk modulus of liquid cesium have two quiescence points, a sharp one in the range 1100k-1500k and a diffused one in the range 1600k-1900k. Therefore, two types of liquid cesium metal may be identified ...

Atomic polarization phenomena impinge upon a number of areas and processes in physics. The dielectric constant and refractive index of any gas are examples of macroscopic properties that are largely determined by the dipole polarizability. When it comes to microscopic phenomena, the existence of alkaline-earth anions and the recently discovered ability of positrons to bind to many atoms are predominantly due to the polarization interaction. An imperfect knowledge of atomic po...

We study metallization of molecular hydrogen under pressure using exact exchange (EXX) Kohn-Sham density-functional theory in order to avoid well-known underestimates of band gaps associated with standard local-density or generalized-gradient approximations. Compared with the standard methods, the EXX approach leads to considerably (1 - 2 eV) higher gaps and significant changes in the relative energies of different structures. Metallization is predicted to occur at a density ...

This paper investigates to identify phase transitions in condensed liquid cesium metal by considering the variation of intermolecular potential parameters \epsilon and r_m in the whole liquid range, with \epsilon being the potential well-depth and r_m the position of minimum potential. These parameters were obtained from the parameters of a new equation of state that was derived recently by using the characteristic potential function. By this method, transitions at about 575 ...

A self-consistent thermodynamic model of metallic system is presented. The expression for the Gibbs energy is derived, which incorporates elastic (static) energy, vibrational energy within the Debye model, and electronic part in Hartee-Fock approximation. The elastic energy is introduced by a volume-dependent anharmonic potential. From the Gibbs energy all thermodynamic quantities, as well as the equation of state, are self-consistently obtained. The model is applied for the ...

In this paper we derive an equation of state for liquid cesium based on a suggested potential function in accord to the characteristics large attraction and soft repulsion at the asymptotes of interaction potentials. By considering the interaction of nearest adjacent atoms in dense fluid, the equation of state predicts that the isotherm is linear function of, where is the compression factor, is the molar volume, and is the molar density. The linear parameters are identified a...