Universal Structural and Dynamic Features in Metals Near Their Melting Points

Abstract

The results of a comparative analysis of experimental data for the equilibrium properties and characteristics of liquid alkaline earth (magnesium, calcium, strontium), alkaline (lithium, sodium, potassium) and transition metal groups: elements of the subgroups of nickel (Ni, Pd, Pt) and copper (Cu, Ag, Au) near their melting points are presented. Reduced spatial r/rm = rkm /2π and time t / t m = t k m / m β scales, in which km is the first peak position of the static structure factor S(k) and β = 1/kBT is the inverse temperature, are introduced as the basis for the law of corresponding states. Based on these scale transformations and x-ray diffraction analysis, it was found that the groups of liquid alkaline, alkaline earth, and transition metals are described by universal r- and k- dependencies. It has been established that the dispersion law of longitudinal polarization ωc (k), given in accordance with these scale relations, for elements of groups of liquid alkaline, alkaline earth and transition metals has a single universal character. An analysis of the properties of three groups (alkaline, alkaline earth and transition) liquid metals using scale transformations shows that the law of the corresponding states is valid for these substances.