Electrical conductivity of liquid deuterium under laser-driven shock loading

Liquid hydrogen and deuterium have abundant electrical and optical properties at high pressure. A simple model to calculate the conductivity of low-Z materials was constructed. Combining the model with experiment, this paper introduces the study of the ionization and conductivity of liquid deuterium at around 70 GPa. The results show that, deuterium at this range of pressure has an ionization about 0.067%, conductivity about 2.87105（Wm)-1, which means the shocked deuterium reaches a conducting state with characteristic of metallic fluid. Apparently, the transition from the insulating molecular state to metallic state of deuterium begins at a lower pressure.