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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 12, Issue 37, Pages 8009-8034Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/12/37/302
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New inelastic x-ray scattering experiments have been performed on Liquid lithium at two different temperatures: T = 475 K (slightly above the melting point) and 600 K. Taking advantage of the absence of any kinematical restriction and incoherent contribution, and pushing the instrumental resolution up to 1.5 meV, it was possible to perform an accurate investigation of the dynamic structure factor S(Q, E) in the wavevector range from 1 to 110 nm(-1). For Q smaller than Q(m) similar or equal to 25 nm(-1), the position of the main peak of the static structure factor, a detailed analysis of the lineshapes shows that any picture of the relaxation mechanisms based on a simple viscoelastic model must be abandoned. All the spectral features can instead satisfactorily be accounted for by including both fast and slow relaxation processes. The physical origin of the slow relaxation is associated with the structural rearrangement, while the local nature of the fast one is extensively discussed. At larger e-values, a gradual crossover from the strongly correlated to single-particle dynamics occurs, with an important weighting provided by quantum effects.
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