TY - JOUR AU - Zastrau, Ulf AU - Sperling, Philipp AU - Becker, Arno AU - Bornath, T. AU - Bredow, R. AU - Doeppner, Tilo AU - Dziarzhytski, Siarhei AU - Fennel, Thomas AU - Fletcher, Luke AU - Foerster, Eckhart AU - Fortmann, Carsten AU - Glenzer, Siegfried AU - Goede, Sebastian AU - Gregori, Gianluca AU - Harmand, Marion AU - Hilbert, Vinzenz AU - Holst, B. AU - Laarmann, Tim AU - Lee, Hae Ja AU - Ma, Tammy AU - Mithen, James AU - Mitzner, Rolf AU - Murphy, Christopher AU - Nakatsutsumi, Motoaki AU - Neumayer, Paul AU - Przystawik, Andreas AU - Roling, Sebastian AU - Schulz, Michael AU - Siemer, Bjoern AU - Skruszewicz, Slawomir AU - Tiggesbaeumker, Josef AU - Toleikis, Sven AU - Tschentscher, Thomas AU - White, Thomas AU - Woestmann, Michael AU - Zacharias, Helmut AU - Redmer, Ronald TI - Equilibration dynamics and conductivity of warm dense hydrogen JO - Physical review / E VL - 90 IS - 1 SN - 1539-3755 CY - College Park, Md. PB - APS M1 - DESY-2014-03077 SP - 013104 PY - 2014 AB - We investigate subpicosecond dynamics of warm dense hydrogen at the XUV free-electron laser facility(FLASH) at DESY (Hamburg). Ultrafast impulsive electron heating is initiated by a < 300-fs short x-rayburst of 92-eV photon energy. A second pulse probes the sample via x-ray scattering at jitter-free variabletime delay. We show that the initial molecular structure dissociates within (0.9 ± 0.2) ps, allowing us to inferthe energy transfer rate between electrons and ions. We evaluate Saha and Thomas-Fermi ionization modelsin radiation hydrodynamics simulations, predicting plasma parameters that are subsequently used to calculatethe static structure factor. A conductivity model for partially ionized plasma is validated by two-temperaturedensity-functional theory coupled to molecular dynamic simulations and agrees with the experimental data. Ourresults provide important insights and the needed experimental data on transport properties of dense plasmas. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000339565200009 C6 - pmid:25122398 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.90.013104 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/170923 ER -