Roadmap for warm dense matter physics
Abstract
This roadmap presents the state-of-the-art, current challenges and near future developments anticipated in the thriving field of warm dense matter physics. Originating from strongly coupled plasma physics, high pressure physics and high energy density science, the warm dense matter physics community has recently taken a giant leap forward. This is due to spectacular developments in laser technology, diagnostic capabilities, and computer simulation techniques. Only in the last decade has it become possible to perform accurate enough simulations \& experiments to truly verify theoretical results as well as to reliably design experiments based on predictions. Consequently, this roadmap discusses recent developments and contemporary challenges that are faced by theoretical methods, and experimental techniques needed to create and diagnose warm dense matter. A large part of this roadmap is dedicated to specific warm dense matter systems and applications in astrophysics, inertial confinement fusion and novel material synthesis.
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@article{arxiv.2505.02494,
title = {Roadmap for warm dense matter physics},
author = {Jan Vorberger and Frank Graziani and David Riley and Andrew D. Baczewski and Isabelle Baraffe and Mandy Bethkenhagen and Simon Blouin and Maximilian P. Böhme and Michael Bonitz and Michael Bussmann and Alexis Casner and Witold Cayzac and Peter Celliers and Gilles Chabrier and Nicolas Chamel and Dave Chapman and Mohan Chen and Jean Clérouin and Gilbert Collins and Federica Coppari and Tilo Döppner and Tobias Dornheim and Luke B. Fletcher and Dirk O. Gericke and Siegfried Glenzer and Alexander F. Goncharov and Gianluca Gregori and Sebastien Hamel and Stephanie B. Hansen and Nicholas J. Hartley and Suxing Hu and Omar A. Hurricane and Valentin V. Karasiev and Joshua J. Kas and Brendan Kettle and Thomas Kluge and Marcus D. Knudson and Alina Kononov and Zuzana Konôpkov á and Dominik Kraus and Andrea Kritcher and Sophia Malko and Gérard Massacrier and Burkhard Militzer and Zhandos A. Moldabekov and Michael S. Murillo and Bob Nagler and Nadine Nettelmann and Paul Neumayer and Benjamin K. Ofori-Okai and Ivan I. Oleynik and Martin Preising and Aurora Pribram-Jones and Tlekkabul Ramazanov and Alessandra Ravasio and Ronald Redmer and Baerbel Rethfeld and Alex P. L. Robinson and Gerd Röpke and François Soubiran and Charles E. Starrett and Gerd Steinle-Neumann and Phillip A. Sterne and Shigenori Tanaka and Aidan P. Thompson and Samuel B. Trickey and Tommaso Vinci and Sam M. Vinko and Lei Wang and Alexander J. White and Thomas G. White and Ulf Zastrau and Eva Zurek and Panagiotis Tolias},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.02494},
year = {2026}
}