arXiv:0712.1564·v1·Strongly Correlated Electrons
Temperature Relaxation in Hot Dense Hydrogen
Michael S. Murillo (LANL)🇺🇸 · M. W. C. Dharma-wardana (NRC Canada)🇨🇦
Abstract
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 (LS) predictions for temperatures T from 50 eV to 5000 eV, and densities with Wigner-Seitz radii r_s = 1.0 and 0.5. The relaxation is slower than the LS result, even for temperatures in the keV range, but converges to agreement in the high-T limit.
Comments: 4 pages PRL style, two figures