Atomic Structure in Strongly Coupled Neon Plasmas.

Abstract

A self-consistent, completely quantum mechanical formalism has been developed that characterizes the fundamental atomic properties of ions in dense plasma. This theory is applied to neon plasmas under strongly-coupled conditions and the results are compared with those obtained from the hypernetted chain approximation employing a semiclassical two-body interaction. The comparisons point out the inappropriateness of Debye-Huckel and ion-sphere approximations for atomic calculations in strongly coupled plasmas and indicate that the self-consistent theory provides a method obtaining meaningful results when the plasma ion coupling parameter is of order five. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 13, 1984
Accession Number
ADA137341

Entities

People

  • Jack F. Davis
  • M. Blaha
  • R. Cauble

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atomic Properties
  • Atomic Structure
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Simulations
  • Couplings
  • Density Functional Theory
  • Distribution Functions
  • Electron Density
  • Electron Gas
  • Electrons
  • Equations
  • Free Electrons
  • Military Research
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Schrodinger Equation
  • Security
  • Wave Functions

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Quantum spin resonance or Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing