New Phases and Dissociation-Recombination of Hydrogen Deuteride to 3.4 Mbar.

R. Dias,O. Noked,I. Silvera

Published 2015 in Physical Review Letters

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We present infrared absorption studies of solid hydrogen deuteride to pressures as high as 340 GPa (100  GPa=1  Mbar) in a diamond anvil cell and temperatures in the range 5-295 K. Above 198 GPa the HD sample transforms to a mixture of HD, H_{2}, and D_{2}, interpreted as a process of dissociation and recombination. Three new phase lines are observed, two of which differ remarkably from those of the high-pressure homonuclear species, but none are metallic. The time-dependent spectral changes are analyzed to determine the molecular concentrations as a function of time; the nucleon exchange achieves steady state concentrations in ∼20  h at ∼200  GPa.

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