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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 77, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.212103
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The structure of an archetypal model simple fluid system as argon has been investigated by x-ray diffraction at high pressures and room and high temperatures. Despite the markedly supercritical conditions (T=2-4T(c), P > 10(2)P(c)), the structure factor S(Q) is very similar, close to the melting line, to that observed in the liquid phase, thereby assessing a liquidlike structure with high atomic correlation, as proposed in a recent inelastic experiment. On the other hand, the S(Q) continuously changes upon approaching the extrapolation of the liquid-gas coexistence line in the (P/P(c), T/T(c)) plane, ultimately exhibiting low atomic correlation, which reasonably indicates intermediate character between liquid and gas. The analysis of the S(Q)s based on the hard-sphere model shows that the changes are driven by the decrease in the packing fraction and the increase in the nearest-neighbor distance with decreasing pressure.
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