Cooking strongly coupled plasmas

作者:Clerouin Jean
来源:Molecular Physics, 2015, 113(17-18): 2403-2408.
DOI:10.1080/00268976.2015.1027754

摘要

We present the orbital-free method for dense plasmas which allows for efficient variable ionisation molecular dynamics. This approach is a literal application of density functional theory where the use of orbitals is bypassed by a semi-classical estimation of the electron kinetic energy through the Thomas-Fermi theory. Thanks to a coherent definition of ionisation, we evidence a particular regime in which the static structure no longer depends on the temperature: the Gamma-plateau. With the help of the well-known Thomas-Fermi scaling laws, we derive the conditions required to obtain a plasma at a given value of the coupling parameter and deduce useful fits. Static and dynamical properties are predicted as well as a a simple equation of state valid on the Gamma-plateau. We show that the one component plasma model can be helpful to describe the correlations in real systems.

  • 出版日期2015-9-17
  • 单位中国地震局