2005 APS March Meeting
Monday–Friday, March 21–25, 2005;
Los Angeles, CA
Session L2: Martensitic Phase Transformations Under Pressure
2:30 PM–5:30 PM,
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
LACC
Room: 151
Sponsoring
Unit:
DCMP
Chair: Robert Albers, Los Alamos National Lab
Abstract ID: BAPS.2005.MAR.L2.1
Abstract: L2.00001 : Synchrotron X-Ray and Magnetic Susceptibility Probes in Diamond-Anvil Cell
2:30 PM–3:06 PM
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Abstract
Author:
Ho-kwang Mao
(Carnegie Institution of Washington)
Multiple x-ray and allied techniques have been developed and integrated at
synchrotron facilities focusing on a unified scientific goal -- exploring
the rich behavior of materials under extreme pressures and temperatures. A
plethora of synchrotron x-ray inelastic spectroscopic techniques has been
introduced and applied, many of them for the first time, for high-pressure
(HP) applications. These include \textit{HP x-ray emission spectroscope} which analyzes energies of the x-ray
fluorescent photons with sub-eV energy resolution of the emission spectral
lineshape to provide valuable information on the filled electronic states of
the HP samples, \textit{HP x-ray inelastic near-edge spectroscopy} which opens a wide new field of HP chemical bonding studies
of the light elements, \textit{HP electronic inelastic x-ray scattering spectroscopy }which provides unlimited access to high energy
electronic phenomena, including electronic band structure, Fermi surface,
excitons, plasmons, and their dispersions at HP, \textit{HP resonant inelastic x-ray scattering spectroscopy }which probes shallow core
excitations and multiplet structures for highly correlated electronic
systems as well as spin-resolved electronic structures for magnetic samples,
and \textit{HP nuclear resonant x-ray spectroscopy }which reveals phonon densities of state and time-resolved M\"{o}ssbauer
information. These new tools integrated with the existing magnetic
susceptibility and electrical conductivity probes are unleashing the full
power of high pressure in numerous scientific disciplines. Fundamental
understanding in electronic structure, from simple electron gas to
strongly-correlated systems, will be manifested through tuning of the
pressure variable. New rules of crystal structure and superconductivity, for
example, will be established across the Periodic Table in each pressure
regime.
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