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Shock compression of coesite up to 950 GPa
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  • Xiaokang Feng,
  • Kento Katagiri,
  • Jia Qu,
  • Keita Nonaka,
  • Liang Sun,
  • Pinwen Zhu,
  • Norimasa Ozaki,
  • T. Sano,
  • Toshimori Sekine,
  • Wenge Yang
Xiaokang Feng
Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR)
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Kento Katagiri
OSAKA University
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Jia Qu
Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research
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Keita Nonaka
Osaka University
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Liang Sun
National Key Laboratory of Plasma Physics, Laser Fusion Research Center
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Pinwen Zhu
Jilin University
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Norimasa Ozaki
Osaka University
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T. Sano
Institute of Laser Engineering
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Toshimori Sekine
Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), Shanghai 201203, China
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Wenge Yang
Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research

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Abstract

Experimental investigations of silica under high pressure and temperature offer crucial insights into modeling of Earth and super-Earth’s interiors. Despite extensive studies on Hugoniots of silica polymorphs like fused-silica (2.20 g/cm3), quartz (2.65 g/cm3) and stishovite (4.29 g/cm3) up to tera-pascal, the initial density dependent Hugoniots leave an unexplored region of melting and liquid of silica at high pressures. This emphasizes the urgence to supplementing the phase diagram to constrain silica properties under extreme conditions. Here, the Hugoniot and shock temperature of coesite (2.92 g/cm3), were studied by laser shock compressions up to 950 GPa. Our findings confirm the shock-induced superheating in coesite, reveals a higher Grüneisen parameter and lower electrical conductivity compared to those of fused-silica and quartz along an isothermal line (< 2×104 K). These results suggest unique properties of shocked coesite, and implys a warmer and longer survival silica magma ocean in earlier rocky-planetary interior.
23 May 2024Submitted to ESS Open Archive
28 May 2024Published in ESS Open Archive