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Electrical conductivity of lithium at megabar pressures

Marina Bastea, Sorin Bastea

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0107119

Abstract

We report measurements of the electrical conductivity of a liquid alkali metal - lithium - at pressures up to 1.8 Mbar and fourfold compression, achieved through shock compression experiments. We find that the results are consistent with a departure of the electronic properties of lithium from the nearly free electron approximation at high pressures.

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