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Sound speed and refractive index of amorphous CaSiO3 upon pressure cycling to 40 GPa

  • Zachary M. Geballe ORCID logo , Sarah M. Arveson , Sergio Speziale and Raymond Jeanloz
From the journal American Mineralogist

Abstract

Brillouin spectroscopy at room temperature and pressures up to 40 GPa documents nearly identical elasticity and refractive index of amorphous CaSiO3 created by two different methods: temperature-quenching the melt at ambient pressure and pressure-amorphizing crystalline wollastonite at room temperature. We find reproducible hysteresis of 0 to 8% on pressure cycling that is small relative to the 30 to 60% changes in shear and longitudinal wave velocities over this pressure range. Together with observed changes in refractive index and previous results from Raman spectroscopy, these measurements reveal a continuous and reversible change in atomic packing induced by pressure. Unlike many other silicate glasses, amorphous CaSiO3 exhibits highly reproducible properties, behaving smoothly and reversibly under pressure cycling and possessing similar structure and elasticity regardless of synthesis paths for the starting material, which suggests that the amorphous solid may mimic the liquid over the pressure range investigated.

Funding statement: Work was supported by the University of California, including the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, and the U.S. DOE/NNSA under award DE-NA-0002006, CDAC. The Advanced Light Source is supported by the U.S. DOE under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Acknowledgments

We thank Pascal Richet, Rus Hemley, and Bjorn Mysen for providing us samples of CaSiO3 glass and Tim Teague for providing us with natural crystalline wollastonite. We thank Rebecca Lange, Dan Shim, David Chandler, Rus Hemley, and Bjorn Mysen for helpful discussions.

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Received: 2021-04-02
Accepted: 2021-11-24
Published Online: 2022-12-01
Published in Print: 2022-12-16

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