Abstract:
The Lindemann equation was used to calculate the melting of metallic hydrogen. It is shown that, after transition from the molecular dielectric phase to the atomic metallic phase, hydrogen becomes a quantum liquid because of the atomic zero-point vibrations. The phase diagram of hydrogen is unique in that the molecular phase is the only solid phase of hydrogen.
Citation:
V. V. Kechin, “Melting of metallic hydrogen at high pressures”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 79:1 (2004), 46–49; JETP Letters, 79:1 (2004), 40–43