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On the Metal–Nonmetal Transition under Nanosecond Laser Ablation

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Behavior of liquid mercury exposed to 25-ns laser pulses is investigated using acoustic and optical diagnostics. It is found that when pressure pulses generated in the target change, an additional peak appears as the laser intensity increases, which can be due to the motion of the metal–nonmetal transition front. This assumption agrees with a decrease in the reflected laser pulse and with the behavior of the pressure pulses in the case of free and loaded irradiated surfaces.

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Samokhin, A.A., Pivovarov, P.A., Shashkov, E.V. et al. On the Metal–Nonmetal Transition under Nanosecond Laser Ablation. Phys. Wave Phen. 29, 204–209 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1541308X21030110

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