Supercritical fluid of metal vapor plasmas, rare gases, and excitons

We discuss vapor–liquid and dielectric–metal transitions and the metalization process via an exponential increase in conductivity under compression in metal vapors. We investigate the ‘cold ionization’ mechanism based on a proposed hypothesis on electron jellium existing as a seed of the conduction band in the gas phase. A number of physical models are proposed that combine methods to describe the interaction of atoms as cohesive and collective,...