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Investigation of the phase transitions in cesium by the average atom model

V. S. Vorob'ev, A. S. Grushin, V. G. Novikov


Abstract: Using the average atom method (quasizone model) we show that the cesium cold curve has two minimums — the first one is at relatively small densities 0.3 g/cm$^3$ and the second one is at higher densities 6.2 g/cm$^3$. The first one leads to the usual critical point characterizing the liquid-vapor phase transition, which is confirmed by experimental data. The reason for the second minimum is connected with s-d transition of valence electron. This leads to a second phase transition with the critical point at temperature 6400 K, density 5.3 g/cm$^3$ and pressure approximately 61000 atm. This phase transition takes place in the cesium plasma state. In this degenerate nonideal plasma with mean ion charge 1.5 and density 3 g/cm$^3$ jumps in a highly ionized state with mean charge of 3.5 and density 6.5 g/cm$^3$.

Keywords: equation of state, phase transition, physics of plasma, average atom model, cesium, nonideal plasma.

Language: English

DOI: 10.20948/prepr-2016-100-e