Abstract
Experimental piston-displacement equations of state are given for sodium, potassium, and rubidium to 20 kbar for temperatures from 4 K to just below the melting line in each case. Except for sodium at high pressures, where the low-temperature bcc-hcp martensitic transition appears to cause problems, these data can be represented by a room-temperature pressure-volume reference function and a thermal pressure which is a function of temperature only. In addition, these three solids appear to obey a reduced equation of state at both 4 K and room temperature, for which $\frac{V}{{V}_{0}}$ is a common function of $\frac{P}{{B}_{0}}$. A modification of the second-order Murnaghan equation which is well behaved at large compressions is used to extrapolate these results to 40 kbar for comparison with higher-pressure, room-temperature results. These data are compared with other high-pressure equation-of-state experiments and are extrapolated to $P=0$ to obtain thermal expansions and isothermal bulk moduli, which in turn are compared with results from other measurements. These comparisons and those with theoretical calculations show, on the whole, satisfactory agreement. The elementary form for the temperature-dependent equation of state is in agreement with a previous suggestion that the Gr\uneisen parameter is temperature independent and is a linear function of the volume for temperatures greater than the Debye temperature. The 295-K Gr\uneisen parameters for these solids, as deduced from the high-pressure results, are 1.24 for sodium and potassium and 1.26 for rubidium.
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