Evidence of Liquid-Liquid Phase Transitions in Real Systems

Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar

Evidence of Liquid-Liquid Phase Transitions in Real Systems

  • Event time: 1:00pm
  • Event date: 10th July 2000
  • Speaker: James Magee (University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

Recent experimental work strongly suggests the existence of thermodynamically stable liquid-liquid phase separation in both molten phosphorus and molten carbon. This talk will discuss the experimental and theoretical evidence for both of these, and their relevance to the possibility of a similar transition in deeply supercooled water.
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Katayama, K., Mizutani, T., Utsumi, W., Shimomura, O., Yamakata, M., Funakoshi, K.I., Nature 403 170-173 (2000) (use Username: WGHL Password: edunival)

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