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The states of dense deuterium are treated starting with the fundamental highly symmetric Hamiltonian where all interactions are entirely Coulombic. Such a system is known to be unstable to deuteron pairing and crystalline ordering at low densities; experimentally it has been probed to densities an order of magnitude higher than normal solid density. At densities somewhat higher than this deuterium is predicted to undergo a dynamic instability to a monatomic metallic state passing on its way through a paired band-overlap phase. Some of the pairing characteristics are immediately transferable to the states formed when positive or negative muons are introduced into dense deuterium.
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Ashcroft, N.W. (1992). Dense Deuterium and Deuterium-Muon Systems. In: Benedek, G., Schneuwly, H. (eds) Exotic Atoms in Condensed Matter. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 59. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76370-0_7
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