Excited States in Warm and Hot Dense Matter
arXiv:2310.11586 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.109.035201
Abstract
Accurate modeling of warm and hot dense matter is challenging in part due to the multitude of excited states that must be considered. In thermal density functional theory, these excited states are averaged over to produce a single, averaged, thermal ground state. Here we present a variational framework and model that includes explicit excited states. In this framework an excited state is defined by a set of effective one-electron occupation factors and the corresponding energy is defined by the effective one-body energy with an exchange and correlation term. The variational framework is applied to an atom-in-plasma model (a generalization of the so-called average atom model). Comparisons with a density functional theory based average atom model generally reveal good agreement in the calculated pressure, but the new model also gives access to the excitation energies and charge state distributions.
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