Jump in the electrical conductivity of shock-compressed glassy carbon

The effect of high dynamic pressures on the electrical conductivity of the amorphous conducting carbon phase (glassy carbon) has been studied. The electrical conductivity of glassy carbon samples has been measured under the condition of shock compression and subsequent release wave. The history of the shock loading of glassy carbon has been calculated with the developed semiempirical equations of state. It has been shown the electrical conductivity of glassy carbon samples in the compression phase at a pressure of 45(5) GPa decreases abruptly by two orders of magnitude. In the relief phase, partially reversible change in the electrical conductivity of an amorphous carbon sample occurs. The recorded effect has been treated as a result of a partially reversible physicochemical transformation of shock-compressed amorphous carbon.