Warm dense matter: equation of state and transport
Warm dense matter is material compressed to solid density or beyond and heated to tens of thousands of degrees, so it is neither an ordinary solid nor a thin plasma. It fills giant-planet interiors and every fusion capsule during implosion, yet its pressure, heat conduction and ability to slow fast particles are poorly known.
Why it matters
Inertial-fusion design codes and models of planetary and white-dwarf interiors depend on equation-of-state and transport data in a regime where standard approximations fail.
Review
M. Bonitz, T. Dornheim, Zh. A. Moldabekov, S. Zhang et al., Ab initio simulation of warm dense matter, Physics of Plasmas, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5143225 reference checked
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