Equation of state for boron nitride along the principal Hugoniot to 16 Mbar

Zhang Huan; Yang Yutong; Yang Weimin; Guan Zanyang; Duan Xiaoxi; Yang Mengsheng; Liu Yonggang; Shen Jingxiang; Batani Katarzyna; Singappuli Diluka; Lan Ke; Li Yongsheng; Huo Wenyi; Liu Hao; Li Yulong; Yang Dong; Li Sanwei; Wang Zhebin; Yang Jiamin; Zhao Zongqing; Zhang Weiyan; Sun Liang; Kang Wei; Batani Dimitri

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Zhang Huan, Yang Yutong, Yang Weimin, Guan Zanyang, Duan Xiaoxi, Yang Mengsheng, Liu Yonggang, Shen Jingxiang, Batani Katarzyna, Singappuli Diluka, Lan Ke, Li Yongsheng, Huo Wenyi, Liu Hao, Li Yulong, Yang Dong, Li Sanwei, Wang Zhebin, Yang Jiamin, Zhao Zongqing, Zhang Weiyan, Sun Liang, Kang Wei, Batani Dimitri. Equation of state for boron nitride along the principal Hugoniot to 16 Mbar[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(5): 057403. doi: 10.1063/5.0206889

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Zhang Huan, Yang Yutong, Yang Weimin, Guan Zanyang, Duan Xiaoxi, Yang Mengsheng, Liu Yonggang, Shen Jingxiang, Batani Katarzyna, Singappuli Diluka, Lan Ke, Li Yongsheng, Huo Wenyi, Liu Hao, Li Yulong, Yang Dong, Li Sanwei, Wang Zhebin, Yang Jiamin, Zhao Zongqing, Zhang Weiyan, Sun Liang, Kang Wei, Batani Dimitri. Equation of state for boron nitride along the principal Hugoniot to 16 Mbar[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(5): 057403. doi: 10.1063/5.0206889

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Zhang Huan, Yang Yutong, Yang Weimin, Guan Zanyang, Duan Xiaoxi, Yang Mengsheng, Liu Yonggang, Shen Jingxiang, Batani Katarzyna, Singappuli Diluka, Lan Ke, Li Yongsheng, Huo Wenyi, Liu Hao, Li Yulong, Yang Dong, Li Sanwei, Wang Zhebin, Yang Jiamin, Zhao Zongqing, Zhang Weiyan, Sun Liang, Kang Wei, Batani Dimitri. Equation of state for boron nitride along the principal Hugoniot to 16 Mbar[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(5): 057403. doi: 10.1063/5.0206889

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Equation of state for boron nitride along the principal Hugoniot to 16 Mbar

doi: 10.1063/5.0206889

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National Key Laboratory of Plasma Physics, Laser Fusion Research Center, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, China
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HEDPS, Center for Applied Physics and Technology, and College of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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HEDPS, Center for Applied Physics and Technology, and School of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Hery 23, 01-497 Warszawa, Poland
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Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, CEA, CELIA (Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications), UMR 5107, F-33405 Talence, France
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Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China

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Corresponding author: a)Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed: sunliangyp@outlook.com; weikang@pku.edu.cn; and dimitri.batani@u-bordeaux.fr
Received Date: 2024-03-04
Accepted Date: 2024-06-12

Available Online: 2024-09-01

Publish Date: 2024-09-01

Abstract

Abstract

The thermodynamic properties of boron nitride under extreme pressures and temperatures are of great interest and importance for materials science and inertial confinement fusion physics, but they are poorly understood owing to the challenges of performing experiments and realizing ab initio calculations. Here, we report the first shock Hugoniot data on hexagonal boron nitride at pressures of 5–16 Mbar, using hohlraum-driven shock waves at the SGIII-p laser facility in China. Our density functional theory molecular dynamics calculations closely match experimental data, validating the equations of state for modeling the shock response of boron nitride and filling a crucial gap in the knowledge of boron nitride properties in the region of multi-Mbar pressures and eV temperatures. The results presented here provide fundamental insights into boron nitride under the extreme conditions relevant to inertial confinement fusion, hydrogen–boron fusion, and high-energy-density physics.

The authors have no conflicts to disclose.
Conflict of Interest
Huan Zhang: Investigation (equal); Writing – original draft (equal). Yutong Yang: Investigation (equal); Writing – original draft (equal). Weimin Yang: Investigation (supporting). Zanyang Guan: Investigation (supporting). Xiaoxi Duan: Data curation (equal); Investigation (equal). Mengsheng Yang: Data curation (equal); Investigation (supporting). Yonggang Liu: Data curation (supporting); Investigation (supporting). Jingxiang Shen: Investigation (supporting). Katarzyna Batani: Data curation (supporting); Formal analysis (supporting); Investigation (supporting). Diluka Singappuli: Data curation (equal). Ke Lan: Investigation (supporting); Writing – review & editing (supporting). Yongsheng Li: Data curation (supporting); Investigation (supporting). Wenyi Huo: Conceptualization (supporting); Data curation (supporting); Investigation (supporting). Hao Liu: Conceptualization (supporting); Investigation (supporting). Yulong Li: Conceptualization (supporting); Investigation (supporting). Dong Yang: Investigation (supporting). Sanwei Li: Formal analysis (supporting); Validation (supporting). Zhebin Wang: Investigation (supporting). Jiamin Yang: Formal analysis (supporting); Investigation (supporting). Zongqing Zhao: Formal analysis (supporting); Investigation (supporting); Project administration (supporting). Weiyan Zhang: Investigation (supporting); Project administration (supporting); Supervision (supporting). Liang Sun: Conceptualization (equal); Investigation (equal); Writing – review & editing (equal). Wei Kang: Conceptualization (equal); Investigation (equal); Writing – review & editing (equal). Dimitri Batani: Conceptualization (equal); Investigation (equal); Writing – original draft (equal); Writing – review & editing (equal).
Author Contributions
W.K., L.S., and D.B. conceived the work; H.Z., L.S., Z.-Y.G., W.-M.Y., Y.-G.L., S.-W.L., H.L., X.-X.D., Z.-B.W., D.Y., J.-M.Y., and D.B. performed the experiments; M.-S.Y. prepared the samples; Y.-T.Y., J.-X.S., and W.K. performed calculations; H.Z., K.B., and D.S. analyzed the data with assistance from D.B. and Z.-B.W.; K.B., K.L., Y.-S.L., W.-Y.H., J.-M.Y., Z.-Q.Z, and W.-Y.Z. contributed to the interpretation of the data; and Z.H. and Y.-T.Y. wrote the paper. All coauthors commented critically on the manuscript.
H.Z. and Y.Y. contributed equally to this work.
The source data are provided and shown in the figures and tables. Additional data are available from the corresponding author upon request.

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