Quantum Statistical Models of Hot Dense Matter Methods for Computation Opacity and Equation of State Free Download

In the processes studied in contemporary physics one encounters the most diverse conditions: temperatures ranging from absolute zero to those found in the cores of stars, and densities ranging from those of gases to densities tens of times larger than those of a solid body. Accordingly, the solution of many problems of modern physics requires an increasingly large volume of information about the properties of matter under various conditions,including extreme ones. At the same time, there is a demand for an increasing accuracy of these data, due to the fact that there liability and computational substantiation of many unique technological devices and physical installations depends on them. The relatively simple models ordinarily described in courses on theoretical physics are not applicable when we wish to describe the properties of matter in a suffciently wide range of temperatures and densities. On the other hand, aimed at generating data on properties of matter under extreme conditions usually face considerably technical difficulties and in a number of instances are exceedingly expensive.