This book is on inertial confinement fusion, an alternative way to produce electrical power
from hydrogen fuel by using powerful lasers or particle beams. It involves the compression of …

The melting curve of gold has been measured up to 110 GPa using laser-heated diamond
anvil cells and synchrotron x-ray diffraction techniques. Accurate pyrometry temperature …

We predict a highly stable and robust atomically thin gold monolayer with a hexagonal close
packed lattice stabilized by metallic bonding with contributions from strong relativistic effects …

Gold is believed to retain its ambient crystal structure at very high pressures under static and
shock compression, enabling its wide use as a pressure marker. Our in situ x-ray diffraction …

A phase diagram of gold is proposed in the [0; 1000] GPa and [0; 10 000] K ranges of
pressure and temperature, respectively, topologically modified with respect to previous …

This perspective addresses the study of" extreme" states of matter created by laser pulses.
We define" warm dense states" and" high energy density", their importance in physics, how …

In a series of experiments in externally electrically heated diamond anvil cells we
demonstrate that at pressures above∼ 240 GPa gold adopts a hexagonal–close-packed …

The ablation pressure at a 0.44-μm laser wavelength has been measured at irradiance up to
2× 10 14 W/cm 2. The diagnostics consisted in the detection of shock breakout from stepped …

Characterizing material dynamics in non-equilibrium states is a current challenge in material
and physical sciences. Combining laser and X-ray pulse sources enables the material …

Intense heavy ion beams open new possibilities in high-energy-density matter research.
Due to the unique feature of the energy deposition process of heavy ions in dense matter …