A variational atomic model of plasma accounting for ion radial correlations and electronic structure of ions (VAMPIRES)
arXiv:2211.06258 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.107.035209
Abstract
We propose a model of ion-electron plasma (or nucleus-electron plasma) that accounts for the electronic structure around nuclei (i.e. ion structure) as well as for ion-ion correlations. The model equations are obtained through the minimization of an approximate free-energy functional, and it is shown that the model fulfills the virial theorem. The main hypotheses of this model are 1) nuclei are treated as classical indistinguishable particles 2) electronic density is seen as a superposition of a uniform background and spherically-symmetric distributions around each nucleus (system of ions in a plasma) 3) free energy is approached using a cluster expansion (non-overlapping ions) 4) resulting ion fluid is modeled through an approximate integral equation. In the present paper, the model is described only in its average-atom version.
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