Quantum-Statistical Models of Hot Dense Matter Methods for Computation Opacity and Equation of State /

• Main Authors: Nikiforov, Arnold F. (Author), Novikov, Vladimir G. (Author), Uvarov, V.B (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2005.
• Series: Progress in Mathematical Physics ; 37
• Subjects: Physics.; Condensed matter.; Condensed Matter Physics.

In the processes studied in contemporary physics one encounters the most diverse conditions: temperatures ranging from absolute zero to those found in the cores of stars, and densities ranging from those of gases to densities tens of times larger than those of a solid body. Accordingly, the solution...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• I. Quantum-statistical self-consistent field models - 1. The generalized Thomas-Fermi model - 2. Electron wave functions in a given potential - 3. Quantum-statistical self-consistent field models - 4. The Hartree-Fock-Slater model for the average atom
• II. Radiative and thermodynamical properties of high-temperature dense plasma - 5. Interaction of radiation with matter - 6. The equation of state
• III. Appendix. Methods for solving the Schrödinger and Dirac equations
• Bibliography
• Index.