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Science. 2017 Aug 25;357(6353). doi: 10.1126/science.aan2286.

Comment on "Observation of the Wigner-Huntington transition to metallic hydrogen".

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Xiao-Di Liu, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Ross T Howie, Bing Li, Eugene Gregoryanz

Affiliations

  1. Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China.
  2. Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai, China.
  3. Center for the Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
  4. Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China. [email protected].
  5. Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

PMID: 28839046 DOI: 10.1126/science.aan2286

Abstract

Dias and Silvera (Research Article, 17 February 2017, p. 715) claim the observation of the Wigner-Huntington transition to metallic hydrogen at 495 gigapascals. We show that neither the claims of the record pressure nor the phase transition to a metallic state are supported by data and that the data contradict the authors' own unconfirmed previous results.

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