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Methodology is presented for analysis of three-particle correlation functions obtained in heavy ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. We show that harmonic correlations can be removed and jet driven correlations reliably extracted.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-24 N. N. Ajitanand , J. M. Alexander , Roy A. Lacey , A. Taranenko

A model for the collisional stopping of ions on free electrons in warm dense matter is developed and explored. It is based on plasma kinetic theory, but with modifications to address the warm dense matter regime. Specifically, it uses the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Lucas Babati , Shane Rightley , Nathaniel Shaffer , Scott Baalrud

A scheme which allows to compute the dynamics of strongly correlated classical ions embedded into a partiallzy ionized quantum plasma by first principles molecular dynamics is presented. The dynamically screened dust approach of Joyce and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-10-10 M. Bonitz , P. Ludwig , J. W. Dufty

Using the dielectric theory for a weakly coupled plasma we investigate the stopping power of the ion in a temperature anisotropic magnetized electron plasma. The analysis is based on the assumption that the energy variation of the ion is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. B. Nersisyan , M. Walter , G. Zwicknagel

We describe kinetic simulations of transient problems in partially ionized weakly-collisional plasma around spherical bodies absorbing or emitting charged particles. Numerical solutions of kinetic equations for electrons and ions in 1D2V…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 V I Kolobov , R R Arslanbekov , H Liang

The role of local electron-vibration and electron-electron interactions on the thermoelectric properties of molecular junctions is theoretically analyzed focusing on devices based on fullerene molecules. A self-consistent adiabatic approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-08 C. A. Perroni , V. Cataudella

We propose a novel method to describe realistically ionization processes with absorbing boundary conditions in basis expansion within the formalism of the so-called Non-Adiabatic Quantum Molecular Dynamics. This theory couples…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Mathias Uhlmann , Thomas Kunert , Ruediger Schmidt

We study the contribution of electron-atom interaction to the equation of state for partially ionized hydrogen plasma using the cluster-virial expansion. For the first time, we use the Beth-Uhlenbeck approach to calculate the second virial…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yultuz A. Omarbakiyeva , Carsten Fortmann , T. S. Ramazanov , Gerd Röpke

The ion temperature behavior in the plasma core of the spherical tokamak Globus-M (major radius 0.36 m, minor radius 0.24 m, torus aspect ratio 1.5, toroidal magnetic field near the plasma axis 0.4 T, plasma current up to 0.3 MA) was…

Thermal corrections to the one-photon spontaneous and induced transition probabilities for hydrogen and hydrogen-like ions are evaluated. The found thermal corrections are given by the vertex Feynman graph, where the vertex represents the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-12-23 D. Solovyev , T. Zalialiutdinov , A. Anikin

Electron-atom collisions in warm dense plasmas are crucial for astrophysics and controlled fusion research, where calculating short-range scattering matrices under screening plasma potentials is essential. While electron-neutral atom…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Chao Wu , Wen Hao Xia , Yong Wu , Jun Yan , Ming Li , Jian Guo Wang , Xiang Gao

In this paper we study theoretically the process of electron capture between one-optical-electron atoms (e.g. hydrogenlike or alkali atoms) and ions at low-to-medium impact velocities ($v/v_e \approx 1$) working on a modification of an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Sattin

Accurate prediction of electron temperature ($T_{\rm e}$) in non-equilibrium plasma flows is critical for applications ranging from hypersonic flight to plasma-assisted combustion. We recently proposed a thermodynamically consistent model…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Bernard Parent , Felipe Martin Rodriguez Fuentes

This review describes the theory and implementation of implicit solvation models based on continuum electrostatics. Within quantum chemistry this formalism is sometimes synonymous with the polarizable continuum model, a particular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 John M. Herbert

In moderately-coupled plasmas, a significant fraction of the internal energy resides in electric fields. As these plasmas are heated or compressed, the shifting partition of energy between particles and fields leads to surprising effects,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 H. Fetsch , T. E. Foster , N. J. Fisch

Experimental studies of electron-ion collision rates in an ultracold neutral plasma (UNP) can be conducted through measuring the rate of electron plasma oscillation damping. For sufficiently cold and dense conditions where strong coupling…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Puchang Jiang , John Guthrie , Jacob L. Roberts

The accurate determination of the lowest electron attachment ($EA$) and ionization ($IP$) energies for molecules embedded in molecular junctions is important for correctly estimating, \emph{e.g.}, the magnitude of the currents ($I$) or the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-09-21 Ioan Baldea

We extend the quantal hypernetted-chain (QHNC) method, which has been proved to yield accurate results for liquid metals, to treat a partially ionized plasma. In a plasma, the electrons change from a quantum to a classical fluid gradually…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Chihara , Y. Ueshima , S. Kiyokawa

A recently developed model to describe proton collisions from molecules involving basic atoms such as hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorus (H, C, N, O, P) is extended to treat collisions with multiply charged ions. The ion-atom…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Hans Jürgen Lüdde , Thilo Kalkbrenner , Marko Horbatsch , Tom Kirchner

Low-frequency properties of a plasma are examined within the average-atom approximation, which presumes that scattering of a conducting electron on each atom takes place independently of other atoms. The relaxation time tau distinguishes a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Yu. Kuchiev , W. R. Johnson