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Warm Dense Matter (WDM) occupies a loosely defined region of phase
space intermediate between solid, liquid, gas, and plasma, and
typically shares characteristics of two or more of these phases.
WDM is generally associated with the combination of strongly
coupled ions and moderately degenerate electrons, and careful
attention to quantum physics and electronic structure is essential.
The lack of a small perturbation parameter greatly limits
approximate attempts at its accurate description. Since WDM resides
at the intersection of solid state and high energy density physics,
many high energy density physics (HEDP) experiments pass through
this difficult region of phase space. Thus, understanding and
modeling WDM is key to the success of experiments on diverse
facilities. These include the National Ignition Campaign centered
on the National Ignition Facility (NIF), pulsed-power driven
experiments on the Z machine, ion-beam-driven WDM experiments on
the NDCX-II, and fundamental WDM research at the Linear Coherent
Light Source (LCLS). Warm Dense Matter is also ubiquitous in
planetary science and astrophysics, particularly with respect to
unresolved questions concerning the structure and age of the gas
giants, the nature of exosolar planets, and the cosmochronology of
white dwarf stars. In this book we explore established and
promising approaches to the modeling of WDM, foundational issues
concerning the correct theoretical description of WDM, and the
challenging practical issues of numerically modeling strongly
coupled systems with many degrees of freedom.
Warm Dense Matter (WDM) occupies a loosely defined region of phase
space intermediate between solid, liquid, gas, and plasma, and
typically shares characteristics of two or more of these phases.
WDM is generally associated with the combination of strongly
coupled ions and moderately degenerate electrons, and careful
attention to quantum physics and electronic structure is essential.
The lack of a small perturbation parameter greatly limits
approximate attempts at its accurate description. Since WDM resides
at the intersection of solid state and high energy density physics,
many high energy density physics (HEDP) experiments pass through
this difficult region of phase space. Thus, understanding and
modeling WDM is key to the success of experiments on diverse
facilities. These include the National Ignition Campaign centered
on the National Ignition Facility (NIF), pulsed-power driven
experiments on the Z machine, ion-beam-driven WDM experiments on
the NDCX-II, and fundamental WDM research at the Linear Coherent
Light Source (LCLS). Warm Dense Matter is also ubiquitous in
planetary science and astrophysics, particularly with respect to
unresolved questions concerning the structure and age of the gas
giants, the nature of exosolar planets, and the cosmochronology of
white dwarf stars. In this book we explore established and
promising approaches to the modeling of WDM, foundational issues
concerning the correct theoretical description of WDM, and the
challenging practical issues of numerically modeling strongly
coupled systems with many degrees of freedom.
This book is devoted to nonmetal-to-metal transitions. The
original ideas of Mott for such a transition in solids have been
adapted to describe a broad variety of phenomena in condensed
matter physics (solids, liquids, and fluids), in plasma and cluster
physics, as well as in nuclear physics (nuclear matter and
quark-gluon systems). The book gives a comprehensive overview of
theoretical methods and experimental results of the current
research on the Mott effect for this wide spectrum of topics. The
fundamental problem is the transition from localized to delocalized
states which describes the nonmetal-to-metal transition in these
diverse systems. Based on the ideas of Mott, Hubbard, Anderson as
well as Landau and Zeldovich, internationally respected scientists
present the scientific challenges and highlight the enormous
progress which has been achieved over the last years. The level of
description is aimed to specialists in these fields as well as to
young scientists who will get an overview for their own work. A
common feature of all contribution is the extensive discussion of
bound states," i.e. their formation and dissolution due to medium
effects. This applies to atoms and molecules in plasmas, fluids,
and small clusters, excitons in semiconductors, or nucleons,
deuterons, and alpha-particles in nuclear matter. In this way, the
transition from delocalized to localized states and vice versa can
be described on a common level."
This book is devoted to nonmetal-to-metal transitions. The
original ideas of Mott for such a transition in solids have been
adapted to describe a broad variety of phenomena in condensed
matter physics (solids, liquids, and fluids), in plasma and cluster
physics, as well as in nuclear physics (nuclear matter and
quark-gluon systems). The book gives a comprehensive overview of
theoretical methods and experimental results of the current
research on the Mott effect for this wide spectrum of topics. The
fundamental problem is the transition from localized to delocalized
states which describes the nonmetal-to-metal transition in these
diverse systems. Based on the ideas of Mott, Hubbard, Anderson as
well as Landau and Zeldovich, internationally respected scientists
present the scientific challenges and highlight the enormous
progress which has been achieved over the last years. The level of
description is aimed to specialists in these fields as well as to
young scientists who will get an overview for their own work. A
common feature of all contribution is the extensive discussion of
bound states," i.e. their formation and dissolution due to medium
effects. This applies to atoms and molecules in plasmas, fluids,
and small clusters, excitons in semiconductors, or nucleons,
deuterons, and alpha-particles in nuclear matter. In this way, the
transition from delocalized to localized states and vice versa can
be described on a common level."
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