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We propose a simple dynamic exchange-correlation kernel of the uniform electron gas. We model the reduction of the electron-electron interaction due to short-range exchange-correlation effects by introducing a frequency-dependent…

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The cross section of a given process fundamentally quantifies the probability for that given process to occur. In the quantum regime of low energies, the cross section can vary strongly with collision energy due to quantum effects. Here, we…

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This work investigates the electronic stopping power for protons of a tungsten plasma at various electron densities and temperatures. The study employs a dielectric formalism to model the stopping power due to free and bound electrons,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 A. M. P. Mendez , J. Chacón-Gijón , J. Vázquez-Moyano , M. D. Barriga-Carrasco

The spectral line shapes for hydrogen-like heavy ion emitters embedded in strongly correlated two-component electron-ion plasmas are investigated with numerical simulations. For that purpose the microfield fluctuations are calculated by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 H. B. Nersisyan , C. Toepffer , G. Zwicknagel

We briefly review analytic approximations of thermodynamic functions of fully ionized nonideal electron-ion plasmas, applicable in a wide range of plasma parameters, including the domains of nondegenerate and degenerate, nonrelativistic and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-02-01 A. Y. Potekhin , G. Chabrier

Ion resonance instability of toroidal electron plasmas in a tight aspect ratio axisymmetric toroidal device is reported for ${Ar}^+$ ions of different initial density values using a high fidelity 3D3V PIC solver. Stability of a recently…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Swapnali Khamaru , Rajaraman Ganesh , Meghraj Sengupta

We present a derivation of the dispersion relation for electrostatic oscillations (ESOs) in a zero temperature quantum plasma. In the latter, degenerate electrons are governed by the Wigner equation, while non-degenerate ions follow the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-25 Bengt Eliasson , Padma K. Shukla

We develop a quantum embedding method that enables accurate and efficient treatment of interactions between molecules and an environment, while explicitly including many-body correlations. The molecule is composed of classical nuclei and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Matej Ditte , Matteo Barborini , Leonardo Medrano Sandonas , Alexandre Tkatchenko

The ionization of a one-dimensional model Helium atom in short laser pulses using time-dependent density functional theory is investigated. We calculate ionization probabilities as a function of laser intensity by approximating the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Wilken , D. Bauer

Path integral Monte Carlo approach is used to study the coupled quantum dynamics of the electron and nuclei in hydrogen molecule ion. The coupling effects are demonstrated by comparing differences in adiabatic Born--Oppenheimer and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-12-29 I. Kylänpää , M. Leino , T. T. Rantala

The degree of ionization of a nondegenerate two-dimensional electron-hole plasma is calculated using the modified law of mass action, which takes into account all bound and unbound states in a screened Coulomb potential. Application of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. Portnoi , I. Galbraith

We report our successful implementation of the full fledged relativistic equation of motion coupled cluster (EOMCC) method. This method is employed to compute the principal ionization potentials (IPs) of closed-shell rare gas atoms, He-like…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-04-24 Himadri Pathak , B. K. Sahoo , B. P. Das , Nayana Vaval , Sourav Pal

A family of Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) methods is designed to maximize the resource of existing noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. However, VQE approaches encounter various difficulties in simulating molecules of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 M. D. Sapova , A. K. Fedorov

Ion sound waves are studied in a plasma subject to gravitational field. Such systems are interesting by exhibiting a wave growth that is a result of energy flux conservation in inhomogeneous systems. The increasing wave amplitude gives rise…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 P. Guio , H. L. Pecseli

The properties of a bound electron system immersed in a plasma environment are strongly modified by the surrounding plasma. The modification of a basic quantity, the ionization energy, is described by the electronic self-energy and by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Chengliang Lin , Gerd Röpke , Wolf-Dietrich Kraeft , Heidi Reinholz

In this paper we re-examine the one-dimensional interaction of electromagnetic and ion acoustic waves in a plasma. Our model is similar to one solved by Rao et al. (Phys. Fluids, vol. 26, 2488 (1983)) under a number of analytical…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Felipe B. Rizzato , Sergio R. Lopes , Abraham C. -L. Chian

Quasilinear theory has long been used to treat the problem of a weak electron beam interacting with plasma and generating Langmuir waves. Its extension to weak-turbulence theory treats resonant interactions of these Langmuir waves with…

We quantitatively estimate properties of the quark-gluon plasma created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions utilizing Bayesian statistics and a multi-parameter model-to-data comparison. The study is performed using a recently…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-22 Jonah E. Bernhard , J. Scott Moreland , Steffen A. Bass , Jia Liu , Ulrich Heinz

In this theoretical study, the problem of self-focusing of an X-ray intense laser beam in the thermal quantum plasma is studied. Using a relativistic fluid model and taking into account the hydrodynamic pressure of degenerate electrons in…

This work is concerned with the study of singular limits for the Vlasov-Poisson system in the case of massless electrons (VPME), which is a kinetic system modelling the ions in a plasma. Our objective is threefold: first, we provide a mean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Mikaela Iacobelli