ELECTRON CORRELATION-EFFECTS AND THE EQUATION OF STATE OF SHOCKED LIQUID DEUTERIUM

Authors
ZINAMON Z ROSENFELD Y
Citation
Z. Zinamon et Y. Rosenfeld, ELECTRON CORRELATION-EFFECTS AND THE EQUATION OF STATE OF SHOCKED LIQUID DEUTERIUM, Physical review letters, 81(21), 1998, pp. 4668-4671
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
81
Issue
21
Year of publication
1998
Pages
4668 - 4671
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1998)81:21<4668:ECATEO>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
An anomalously high electronic heat capacity in the monatomic plasma s tate, resulting from electron correlation effects, could lead to a con siderable amount of molecular dissociation, which is required to descr ibe the recent Nova laser Hugoniot for shocked liquid deuterium. Withi n a simple metallic-fluid model of the dissociated molecular deuterium , this effect is in accord with recent quantum Monte Carlo calculation s. [S0031-9007(98)07666-2].