The year 1985 represents a special anniversary for people dealing with Ooulomb systems. 200 years ago, in 1785, Oharles Auguste de Ooulomb (1736-1806) found "Ooulomb's law" for the interaction force between charged particles. The authors want to dedicate this book to the honour of the great pioneer of electrophysics. Recent statistical mechanics is mainly restricted to systems of neutral particles. Except for a few monographs and survey articles (see, e. g., IOHIMARU, 1973, 1982; KUDRIN, 1974; KLIMONTOVIOH, 1975; EBELING, KRAEFT and KREMP, 1976, 1979; KALMAN and CARINI, 1978; BAUS and HANSEN, 1980; GILL, 1981, VELO and WIGHT MAN, 1981; MATSUBARA, 1982) the extended material on charged particle systems, which is now available thanks to the efforts of many workers in statistical mechanics, is widely dispersed in many original articles. It is the aim of this monograph to represent at least some part of the known results on charged particle systems from a unified point of view. Here the method of Green's functions turns out to be a powerful method especially to overcome the difficulties connected with the statistical physics of charged particle systems; some of them are . mentioned in the introduction. Here we can point, e.g., to the appearance of bound states in a medium and their role as new entities."

The idea to write this volume arose in May, 1979 on the "Annual Seminar on Sta- tistical Physics" in Lahnwitz near Gustrow, a nice resort place of the Padagogische Hochschule Liselotte Herrmann Gustrow, where most of the authors were present. The participants of this seminar agreed in the general opinion that the transport properties of charged particle systems starting from ionized gases and ending with liquid metals should be interpreted in a unique way. The basic method of such a uni- fied theory which is still in "status nascendi" nowadays, should be the statistical physics of systems with Coulombic interactions. The first two chapters of this volume are devoted to mainly experimental aspects in investigating high density plasmas. After transport theory is presented in chapter 3., two special problems are considered being of interest in the theory of high density plasmas: the problem of bound states in kinetic theory (chapter 4.) and the theory of liquid metals (chapter 5.), which may be considered as weakly coupled nonideal plas- mas. Besides transport properties also thermodynamic properties of den se Coulomb systems have been discussed in chapters 1. and 5. The theory of thermodynamic properties of plasmas has been given in a previous volume (Nr. 5) of this series.

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