{
  "id": "1607.07511",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2016-07-26T00:36:06.000Z",
  "updated": "2016-07-26T00:36:06.000Z",
  "title": "Theory of complex fluids in the warm-dense-matter regime, and application to phase-transitions in liquid carbon",
  "authors": [
    "M. W. C. Dharma-wardana"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, three figures, Revtex",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "astro-ph.EP",
    "physics.plasm-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Using data from recent laser-shock experiments and related density-functional molecular-dynamics simulations on carbon, we demonstrate that the ionic structures predicted within the neutral-pseudo-atom approach for a complex liquid in the warm-dense matter regime are in good agreement with available data, even where transient covalent bonding dominates ionic correlations. Evidence for an unusual phase transition of a liquid $\\to$ vapor with an abrupt decrease in ionization occurring simultaneously is presented. Here a covalently-bonded metallic-liquid, i.e., carbon of density 1.0 g/cm$^3$, transits to a disordered mono-atomic fluid at 7 eV. Other transitions where the mean ionization $Z$ drops abruptly are also uncovered",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2016-07-26T00:36:06.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "complex fluids",
      "liquid carbon",
      "warm-dense-matter regime",
      "phase-transitions",
      "application"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "RevTeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}