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Plasma Investigations

Anomalous mobility of negative charges in liquid hydrogen: A model of ionic bubble

A. V. Berezhnov^a, A. G. Khrapak^a, E. Illenberger^b, V. F. Schmidt<sup>b

a</sup> Institute of Extremal States Thermophysics, Scientific Association for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Free University, Berlin

Abstract: It is demonstrated that the anomalous mobility of electrons injected into liquid hydrogen, observed in the vicinity of the triple point, is associated with the formation of a cavity with a radius of about $5{\mathring{A}}$ around an $\mathrm{H}^-$ ion rather than with the formation of solid-state $(\mathrm{H}_2)_n\mathrm{H}^-$ cluster ions (Atkins icicles) as was previously assumed.

UDC: 537.3

Received: 05.12.2002

 English version: High Temperature, 2003, 41:4, 425–427