Published October 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Addendum to 'Equation of state of classical Coulomb plasma mixtures'

  • 1. Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, CRAL, UMR CNRS 5574, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07 (France)
  • 2. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)
  • 3. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94550 (United States)

Description

Recently developed analytic approximation for the equation of state of fully ionized nonideal electron-ion plasma mixtures [A. Y. Potekhin, G. Chabrier, and F. J. Rogers, Phys. Rev. E 79, 016411 (2009)], which covers the transition between the weak and strong Coulomb coupling regimes and reproduces numerical results obtained in the hypernetted-chain (HNC) approximation, is modified in order to fit the small deviations from the linear mixing in the strong-coupling regime, revealed by recent Monte Carlo simulations. In addition, a mixing rule is proposed for the regime of weak coupling, which generalizes post-Debye density corrections to the case of mixtures and numerically agrees with the HNC approximation in that regime.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics (Print)
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 047401-047401.4
ISSN
1539-3755

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41040495
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
APPROXIMATIONS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; MIXTURES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PLASMA; STRONG-COUPLING MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; DISPERSIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; SIMULATION

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