Statistical Properties of the Dense Hydrogen Plasma: an ab initio Molecular Dynamics Investigation

Details Statistical Properties of the Dense Hydrogen Plasma: an ab initio Molecular Dynamics Investigation Statistical Properties of the Dense Hydrogen Plasma: an ab initio Molecular Dynamics Investigation

1996-02-22

arxiv.org/abs/mtrl-th/9602004v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

14 pages (twocolumn), 18 Postscript figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.54.768

The metallic regime of the hydrogen plasma is studied by ab initio Molecular Dynamics simulations, for classical protons and fully degenerate electrons, in the strong coupling regime of the protons. The breakdown of linear screening observed for decreasing density gives rise to a surprisingly rich low-temperature phase diagram, showing in particular a dramatic drop of the melting temperature of the proton crystal. Extensive dynamical simulations reveal the remarkable persistence of a weakly damped high-frequency ion acoustic mode (plasmon-like), even under conditions of strong electron screening. This collective mode should disappear in the molecular phase, thus providing a probe for the metal-insulator transition in a region of parameters where experiment is difficult to achieve. Finite-size effects arising in the simulation of liquid metals are discussed. The status of the dense Hydrogen matter is extensively reviewed in the introduction.

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