AC conductivity of warm dense aluminum

Summary form only given, as follows. The AC conductivity of aluminum in the warm dense matter regime of several electron-volts and solid density is of particular interest because of its proximity to the predicted region of conductivity minimum. In this paper, we will describe the first determination of AC conductivity of a well defined, single plasma state using measured values of reflectivity and transmission for a slab plasma produced by the isochoric heating of an ultrathin aluminum foil with a femtosecond laser.