Published May 23, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Temperature Relaxation in Hot Dense Hydrogen

  • 1. Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
  • 2. National Research Council, Ottawa, K1A 0R6 (Canada)

Description

Temperature equilibration of hydrogen is studied for conditions relevant to inertial confinement fusion. New molecular-dynamics simulations and results from quantum many-body theory are compared with Landau-Spitzer predictions for temperatures T with 50<T<4000 eV and densities with Wigner-Seitz radii rs=1.0 and 0.5. The relaxation is slower than the Landau-Spitzer result, even for T in the kilo-electron-volt range, but converge to agreement in the high-T limit

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
100
Journal Issue
20
Journal Page Range
p. 205005-205005.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

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