Density Fluctuations in Molten Lithium: Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Study

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2000-01-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0001190v3

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 12 No 37 (18 September 2000) 8009-8034

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

25 pages, 12 PS figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/12/37/302

New inelastic X-ray scattering experiments have been performed in liquid lithium at two different temperatures: T=475 K (slightly above the melting point) and 600 K. Taking advantage of the absence of any kinematical restriction and incoherent contribution, and pushing the instrumental resolution up to 1.5 meV, it was possible to perform an accurate investigation of the dynamic structure factor S(Q,E) in the wavevector range from 1 to 110 nm^-1. For Q smaller than Q_m=25 nm^-1, the position of the main peak of the static structure factor, a detailed analysis of the lineshapes shows that any picture of the relaxation mechanisms based on a simple viscoelastic model must be abandoned. All the spectral features can instead satisfactorily be accounted for by including both fast and slow relaxation processes. The physical origin of the slow relaxation is associated to the structural rearrangement, while the local nature of the fast one is extensively discussed. At larger Q values a gradual crossover from the strongly correlated to single particle dynamics occurs, with an important weight provided by quantum effects.

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