Strongly Coupled Plasma Physics

A NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Strongly Coupled Plasma Physics was held on the Santa Cruz Campus of the University of California, from August 4 through August 9, 1986. It was attended by 80 participants from 13 countries, 45 of whom were invited speakers. The present volume contains the texts of the invited talks and many of the contributed papers. The relative length of each text is roughly proportional to the length of the workshop presentation. The aim of the workshop was to bring together leading researchers from a number of related disciplines in which strong Coulomb interactions play a dominant role. Compared to the 1977 meeting in Orleans-la-Source, France and the 1982 meeting in Les-Houches, France, it is apparent that the field of strongly coupled plasmas has expanded greatly and has become a very significant field of physics with a wide range of applications. This workshop had a far greater participation of experimental researchers than did the previous two, and some confrontations of real experiments with theoretical calculations occurred. In the two earlier meetings the theoretical presentations were dominated by numerical simulations of static and dynamic properties of various strongly coupled plasmas. The dearth of experiments in the 1970's is now replaced by some very good experimental efforts.

I. Classical Strong Coupling.- Thermodynamic Functions, Transport Coefficients and Dynamic Correlations in Dense Plasmas.- Static and Dynamic Properties of Strongly-Coupled Classical One-Component Plasmas: Numerical Experiments on Supercooled Liquid State and Simulation of Ion Plasma in the Penning Trap.- Extraction of the One-Component Plasma Bridge Function from Computer Simulation Data.- Some Properties of a Polarized OCP.- Perturbation Theory of the Miscibility Gap in Metal Salt Solutions.- II. Plasma Experiments.- A High-?, Strongly-Coupled, Non-Neutral Ion Plasma.- Laser Scattering Measurements of Thermal Entropy and Non-Acoustic Fluctuations in Collision-Dominated Plasmas.- Production and Diagnosis of Dense Cool Alkali Plasmas.- Shock Waves and Thermodynamics of Strongly Compressed Plasmas.- Strongly-Coupled Plasma Diagnostics and Experimental Determination of DC Electrical Conductivity.- III. Molecular Dynamics and Kinetic Theory.- Two Component Plasmas in Two and Three Dimensions.- Kinetic Theory of the Interdiffusion Coefficient In Dense Plasmas.- Transport Properties of a Fully Ionized Plasma: Semi-Classical or Quantum Mechanical Approach.- IV. Astrophysics.- Dense Matter in Astrophysics: Selected Topics.- Transport Processes and Neutrino Emission Processes in Dense Astrophysical Plasmas.- White Dwarf Stars: Laboratories for Strongly Coupled Plasma Physics.- Toward an Improved Pure Hydrogen EOS for Astrophysical Applications.- Solar Oscillations and the Equation of State.- V. Quantum Plasmas.- Thermodynamic Properties and Phase Transitions in Hydrogen and Rare Gas Plasmas.- Nonideal Plasmas and Bound States.- High-Order Levinson Theorems and the Plank-Larkin Partition Function for Reacting Plasmas.- Metallic Lithium by Quantum Monte Carlo.- Thomas-FermiTheory and its Generalizations, Applied to Strongly Coupled Plasmas.- The Thomas-Fermi and Related Models.- Occupation Numbers in Partially Ionized Plasmas.- Thomas Fermi Calculation of the Degree of Ionization in a Dense Plasma.- VI. Density Functional Theory.- Density-Functional Methods in Hot Dense Plasmas.- Description of Atomic Species in Dense Plasmas Using a Density-Functional-Theory Approach.- The Freezing of Charged and Uncharged Hard-Sphere Systems.- Atomic Structure of an Impurity Neon In Liquid Metallic Hydrogen.- VII. 2-D Plasmas.- Solvable Models of Coulomb Systems in Two Dimensions.- Charge Correlations and Sum Rules in Coulomb Systems I.- Charge Correlations and Sum Rules in Coulomb Systems II: Dynamics.- Theory of the Strongly Coupled 2-D Plasma with the 1/r Potential.- VIII. Metallic Fluids.- Metallic Fluids in the Critical Region.- Acoustic Velocity Measurements on Fluid Metals From Two-Fold Compressions to Two-Fold Expansions.- Structure of the Jovian Envelope and the Equation of State of Dense Hydrogen.- IX. Response Functions and Ion Stopping Power.- Nonlinear Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorems and Their Applications to Dynamical Problems in Strongly Coupled Plasmas.- Collective Modes and Mode Coupling for a Dense Plasma in a Magnetic Field.- Ion Stopping Power in Dense Partially Degenerate Plasmas.- Exact Asymptotic Expression for the State Dielectric Function of a Uniform Liquid at Large Wave Vectors.- The Strongly Coupled OCP Plasmon Dispersion for Finite Wavenumbers.- X. Electric Microfield and Optical Properties.- Electric Microfield Distributions.- Optical Properties of Non-Ideal Plasmas.- Simulation Studies of Ion Dynamic Effects on Dense Plasma Line Shapes.- Electric Microfield Distribution in Strongly Coupled Plasmas from Integral EquationSolutions.- Effects of Dielectronic Satellite Broadening on the Emission Spectra from Hot Plasmas.- Influence of Effective Interionic Potentials on the Low Frequency Electric Microfield Distributions in Dense Semi-Classical Hydrogen Plasmas.- Stark Effect in Dense, Correlated Plasmas.- Resonant Absorption in Dense Cesium Plasma.- XI. Integral Equations.- Onsager-Thomas-Fermi “Atoms” and “Molecules”: “Chemistry” of Correlations in Dense Plasmas.- Quantal Hypernetted Chain Equation Applied to Liquid Metallic Hydrogen.- Computation of an Improved Integral Equation by Non Linear Resummation of the First Graphs of the Bridge Function.- Lecturers.