Graziani F., Desjarlais M.P., Redmer R., Trickey S.B. (Eds.) Frontiers and Challenges in Warm Dense Matter

Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2014. – 294 p. – ISBN: 978-3-319-04911-3A major component was a series of workshops, one of which focused on the exciting field of warm dense matter (WDM). WDM was described in the 2009 Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee’s report and the Basic Research Needs for High Energy Density Laboratory Physics report as an extreme state of matter characterized as intermediate “...between condensed matter (solids and liquids), gases, and ideal plasmas. It exists in the lower-temperature portion of the high energy density regime, under conditions where the assumptions of both condensedmatter theory and ideal-plasma theory break down, and where quantum mechanics, particle correlations, and electric forces are all important”. Typically WDM conditions span the eV range (1 eV = 1.16x104 K) with densities typical of solids up to very high compressions. For both theoretical methods and for their computational implementation, such magnitudes and large ranges pose immense but fascinating challenges. This volume is devoted to expositions of approaches to those WDM challenges from experts who attended the IPAM workshop.Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Features and Challenges, with a Special View on Matter Under Extreme Conditions
Thermal Density Functional Theory in Context
Innovations in Finite-Temperature Density Functionals
Toward a Comprehensive Treatment of Temperature in Electronic Structure Calculations: Non-zero-Temperature Hartree-Fock and Exact-Exchange Kohn-Sham Methods
Quantum Monte Carlo Techniques and Applications For Warm Dense Matter
The Structure of Warm DenseMatterModeled with an Average Atom Model with Ion-Ion Correlations
Dynamical Structure Factor in High Energy Density Plasmas and Application to X-Ray Thomson Scattering
Progress in Warm Dense Matter and Planetary Physics
Diffusivity of Mixtures in Warm Dense Matter Regime
A Review of Wave Packet Molecular Dynamics