Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Applied to Average Atom Opacity
arXiv:2104.00551 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.103.043206
Abstract
We focus on studying the opacity of iron, chromium, and nickel plasmas at conditions relevant to experiments carried out at Sandia National Laboratories [J. E. Bailey et al., Nature 517, 56 (2015)]. We calculate the photo-absorption cross-sections and subsequent opacity for plasmas using linear response time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT). Our results indicate that the physics of channel mixing accounted for in linear response TD-DFT leads to an increase in the opacity in the bound-free quasi-continuum, where the Sandia experiments indicate that models under-predict iron opacity. However, the increase seen in our calculations is only in the range of 5-10%. Further, we do not see any change in this trend for chromium and nickel. This behavior indicates that channel mixing effects do not explain the trends in opacity observed in the Sandia experiments.
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