Pushing high pressure experiments in front of synchrotrons: a selection of few recent results
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P. Loubeyre, CEA, DIF, France
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Bldg. 25b, Room 109
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Pushing high pressure experiments in front of synchrotrons: a selection of few recent results.
LOUBEYRE P.
CEA, DIF, F91287 Arpajon. France.
(paul.loubeyre@cea.fr).
A major achievement of the High Pressure field is certainly that the properties of materials at Mbar pressures can now be studied almost as completely and as accurately as if at ambient pressure. Synchrotron facilities have been essential for that. In parallel, over the same period of 20 years, remarkable progress in the understanding of condensed matter under very high pressure have been achieved by using dynamic compression and by doing ab-initio calculations.
Some interesting questions are emerging:
- Could the ab-initio calculations supplant the experiments? What kind of experiments are still needed?
- Are dynamical experiments complementary to static ones? Can we implement dynamical experiments in front of synchrotrons? How?
- What are the current frontiers of the field?
We will try to give some answers to these questions, with a biased selection of examples from our recent measurements on molecular systems and metals. Some challenge experiments for the next years will be discussed.
