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CONDENSED MATTER

Melting of metallic hydrogen at high pressures

V. V. Kechin

Institute for High Pressure Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: The Lindemann equation was used to calculate the melting of metallic hydrogen. It is shown that, after transition from the molecular dielectric phase to the atomic metallic phase, hydrogen becomes a quantum liquid because of the atomic zero-point vibrations. The phase diagram of hydrogen is unique in that the molecular phase is the only solid phase of hydrogen.

PACS: 61.66.Bi, 62.50.+p, 64.60.-i, 67.90.+z

Received: 21.11.2003

 English version: Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2004, 79:1, 40–43

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