Energy of Quantum Coulomb Liquid
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2019-11-19 v1 Plasma Physics
Abstract
Using Metropolis method to compute path integrals, the energy of quantum strongly-coupled Coulomb liquid () composed of distinguishable atomic nuclei and uniform incompressible electron background is calculated from first principles. The range of considered temperatures and densities represents fully-ionized layers of white dwarfs and neutron stars. In particular, the results allow one to determine reliably the heat capacity of ions in dense fluid stellar matter, which is a crucial ingredient for modelling thermal evolution of compact degenerate stars.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.01600,
title = {Energy of Quantum Coulomb Liquid},
author = {D. A. Baiko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.01600},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures, accepted to MNRAS