Statistical mechanics of dense plasmas and implications for the plasma polarization shift

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5594381

Rogers, F J

A brief description of the statistical mechanics of reacting, dense, plasmas is given. The results do not support a Debye-like polarization shift at low density. It is shown that the electronic charge density factors into a strongly quantum mechanical part, that is not much affected by many body correlations and a weakly quantum mechanical part, that is considerably effected by many body correlations. The few body charge density is obtained from direct solution of the Schroedinger equation and the many body charge density is obtained from the hypernetted chain equation through the introduction of a pseudopotential.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5594381
• Report Number(s): UCRL-91318; CONF-8406153-3; ON: DE85012974
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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