Using Diffuse Scattering to Observe X-Ray-Driven Nonthermal Melting

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العنوان: Using Diffuse Scattering to Observe X-Ray-Driven Nonthermal Melting
المؤلفون: Hartley, N. J., Grenzer, J., Huang, L., Inubushi, Y., Kamimura, N., Katagiri, K., Kodama, R., Kon, A., Lu, W., Makita, M., Matsuoka, T., Nakajima, S., Ozaki, N., Pikuz, T., Rode, A., Sagae, D., Schuster, A. K., Tono, K., Voigt, K., Vorberger, J., Yabuuchi, T., McBride, E. E., Kraus, D.
المصدر: Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 015703 (2021)
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Plasma Physics
الوصف: We present results from the SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free electron LAser (SACLA) XFEL facility, using a high intensity ($\sim\!10^{20}\,$W/cm$^2$) X-ray pump X-ray probe scheme to observe changes in the ionic structure of silicon induced by X-ray heating of the electrons. By avoiding Laue spots in the scattering signal from a single crystalline sample, we observe a rapid rise in diffuse scattering, which we attribute to a loss of lattice order and a transition to a liquid state within 100 fs of irradiation, a timescale which agrees well with first principles simulations, but is faster than that predicted by purely inertial behavior. This method is capable of observing liquid scattering without masking or filtering of signal from the ambient solid, allowing the liquid structure to be measured throughout and beyond the phase change.
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نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.015703
الوصول الحر: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15007Test
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2007.15007
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv