Frontiers and Challenges in Warm Dense Matter

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Features and Challenges, with a Special View on Matter Under Extreme Conditions

   • Carsten A. Ullrich

   Pages 1-23

3. Thermal Density Functional Theory in Context

   • Aurora Pribram-Jones, Stefano Pittalis, E. K. U. Gross, Kieron Burke

   Pages 25-60

4. Innovations in Finite-Temperature Density Functionals

   • Valentin V. Karasiev, Travis Sjostrom, Debajit Chakraborty, James W. Dufty, Keith Runge, Frank E. Harris et al.

   Pages 61-85

5. Toward a Comprehensive Treatment of Temperature in Electronic Structure Calculations: Non-zero-Temperature Hartree-Fock and Exact-Exchange Kohn-Sham Methods

   • Hannes Schulz, Andreas Görling

   Pages 87-121

6. Quantum Monte Carlo Techniques and Applications for Warm Dense Matter

   • Ethan Brown, Miguel A. Morales, Carlo Pierleoni, David Ceperley

   Pages 123-149

7. The Structure of Warm Dense Matter Modeled with an Average Atom Model with Ion-Ion Correlations

   • D. Saumon, C. E. Starrett, J. A. Anta, W. Daughton, G. Chabrier

   Pages 151-176

8. Dynamical Structure Factor in High Energy Density Plasmas and Application to X-Ray Thomson Scattering

   • Carsten Fortmann

   Pages 177-201

9. Progress in Warm Dense Matter and Planetary Physics

   • Winfried Lorenzen, Andreas Becker, Ronald Redmer

   Pages 203-234

10. Diffusivity of Mixtures in Warm Dense Matter Regime

    • Tomorr Haxhimali, Robert E. Rudd

    Pages 235-263

11. A Review of Wave Packet Molecular Dynamics

    • Paul E. Grabowski

    Pages 265-282

12. Back Matter

    Pages 283-289

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Warm Dense Matter (WDM) occupies a loosely defined region of phase space intermediate between solid, liquid, gas, and plasma, and typically shares characteristics of two or more of these phases. WDM is generally associated with the combination of strongly coupled ions and moderately degenerate electrons, and careful attention to quantum physics and electronic structure is essential. The lack of a small perturbation parameter greatly limits approximate attempts at its accurate description. Since WDM resides at the intersection of solid state and high energy density physics, many high energy density physics (HEDP) experiments pass through this difficult region of phase space. Thus, understanding and modeling WDM is key to the success of experiments on diverse facilities. These include the National Ignition Campaign centered on the National Ignition Facility (NIF), pulsed-power driven experiments on the Z machine, ion-beam-driven WDM experiments on the NDCX-II, and fundamental WDM research at the Linear Coherent Light Source (LCLS). Warm Dense Matter is also ubiquitous in planetary science and astrophysics, particularly with respect to unresolved questions concerning the structure and age of the gas giants, the nature of exosolar planets, and the cosmochronology of white dwarf stars. In this book we explore established and promising approaches to the modeling of WDM, foundational issues concerning the correct theoretical description of WDM, and the challenging practical issues of numerically modeling strongly coupled systems with many degrees of freedom.

• High energy density phyiscs
• Highly correlated systems
• Statistical phyiscs

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA

  Frank Graziani

• Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA

  Michael P. Desjarlais

• Institute of Physics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

  Ronald Redmer

• Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

  Samuel B. Trickey

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