X-ray diffraction of metastable structures from supercooled liquid hydrogen
oleh: Luke B. Fletcher, Abraham L. Levitan, Emma E. McBride, Jongjin B. Kim, Eduardo P. Alves, Andrew Aquila, Mungo Frost, Sebastian Goede, Grace King, Thomas J. Lane, Mengning Liang, Michael J. MacDonald, Benjamin K. Ofori-Okai, Christopher Schönwälder, Peihao Sun, Jerome B. Hastings, Sebastien Boutet, Siegfried H. Glenzer
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2024-07-01 |
Deskripsi
Abstract We report time resolved observations of the crystallization from liquid hydrogen, supercooled to temperatures below the melting point, using 11.2 keV X-ray diffraction from the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). Changes to the metastable solid and liquid structure factors have been dynamically measured. This allows for a direct determination of the lowest energy crystal polymorphs, the stacking probabilities, as well as the liquid and solid densities and temperatures. Such measurements provide experimental evidence of an Arrhenius-like growth kinetics along the stacking direction during supercooling.