Issue |
EPL
Volume 97, Number 1, February 2012
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Article Number | 15004 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Physics of Gases, Plasmas and Electric Discharges | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/97/15004 | |
Published online | 03 January 2012 |
Dielectric catastrophe and insulator-conductor transition
Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences - Izhorskaya 13, Moscow 125412, Russia
Received:
22
October
2011
Accepted:
21
November
2011
The phenomenological conception of “dielectric catastrophe” applies to the explanation of dielectric-conductor transitions in metal hydrides, hydrogen, rare gases and alkali metals. This conception together with the simple cell model appears to be applicable for the hydrides, where it predicts the correct transition density. For the others substances it fails, but the cell models are still of use in the description of metallization.
PACS: 52.27.Gr – Strongly-coupled plasmas / 62.50.-p – High-pressure effects in solids and liquids / 71.30.+h – Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions
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