Pressure to explore new worlds, exotic solids, and star power
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XHQ / E1.173
European XFEL Schenefeld
A science revolution is underway with the discovery of thousands of planets outside of our solar system, the creation of revolutionary materials, and the potential for harnessing fusion energy. Unlocking these discoveries hinges on our ability to understand and manipulate matter to and beyond atomic pressures, conditions that alter the nature of atoms themselves. I will describe recent experiments exploring matter at pressures, where our intuition begins to breakdown, with hydrogen becoming metallic - perhaps on its way to being a superconducting-superfluid, simple metals like aluminum becoming exotic insulators, core electrons forming KeV chemical bonds, and the immutable atom being stripped of it’s defining orbitals. I will show how laboratory laser experiments are exploring this science frontier at light speed, and how the EuXFEL might be the key in understanding or controlling this new frontier. You might take a look at one of our videos as a primer to our discussion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqabT21d8VM).
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Sakura Pascarelli