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Recent experiments on the compression of liquid hydrogen in reverberating shock waves, which indicate the transition into a metallic state at about nine times the liquid H2 density [S. T. Weir, A. C. Mitchell, and W. J. Nellis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1860 (1996)], have been interpreted by a microscopic percolation in a virtual molecular structure with a continuous spectrum of the electron excitations. The scaling dependence of the electron mobility on the energy above the percolation threshold has been used to qualitatively describe the electrical conductivity of fluid molecular hydrogen in the vicinity of the insulator-metal transition point.
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Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 113, 1094–1100 (March 1998)
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Likalter, A.A. Is superdense fluid hydrogen a molecular metal?. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 86, 598–601 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.558510
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