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Cage diffusion in liquid mercury.

Yaspal S Badyal1, Ubaldo Bafile, Kunimasa Miyazaki

  • 1Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|February 3, 2004
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Inelastic neutron scattering reveals liquid mercury

Area of Science:

  • Condensed matter physics
  • Materials science
  • Neutron scattering

Background:

  • Understanding atomic dynamics in liquid metals is crucial for materials science.
  • Liquid mercury exhibits complex dynamic behavior influenced by interatomic interactions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the dynamic structure factor of liquid mercury using inelastic neutron scattering.
  • To elucidate the diffusion mechanisms governing atomic motion in liquid mercury at room temperature.

Main Methods:

  • Inelastic neutron scattering (INS) measurements.
  • Analysis of the dynamic structure factor S(q,E) across a range of wave numbers (0.3 < q < 7.0 A⁻¹).

Main Results:

  • The incoherent part of S(q,E) is governed by self-diffusion.

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  • The coherent part of S(q,E) displays characteristics of cage diffusion.
  • A quasielastic mode with cage diffusion timescales was observed, but with significantly higher intensity.

    • Conclusions:

    • Atomic motion in liquid mercury involves both self-diffusion and cage diffusion.
    • The enhanced intensity of the quasielastic mode suggests a valence fluctuation mechanism may amplify cage diffusion at small wave numbers.