The Physics of Non-Ideal Plasma

The following sections are included:

• Preface

• Contents

The following sections are included:

• Interparticle Interactions. Criteria of Non-Ideality
  • Interparticle Interactions
  • Coulomb Interaction
  • Electron/Atom and Ion/Atom Interaction
  • Compound Particles in Plasma

• The Range of Existence of Non-ideal Plasma. The Classification of States
  • Two-Component Plasma
  • Metal Plasma
  • Inert Gas Plasma
  • Plasma with Multiply Charged Ions

• Non-ideal Plasma in Nature. Scientific and Technical Applications

The following sections are included:

• Plasma Heating in Furnaces
  • Measurement of Electrical Conductivity and Thermoelectromotive Force
  • Optical Absorpton Measurements
  • Density Measurements
  • Sound Velocity Measurements

• Isobaric Joule Heating
  • Isobaric Heating in a Capillary
  • Heating in an Atmosphere of Inert Gas

• High-Pressure Electric Discharges

The following sections are included:

• The Principles of Dynamic Generation and Diagnostics of Plasma

• Dynamic Compression of the Cesium Plasma

• Compression of Inert Gases by Powerful Shock Waves

• Isentropic Expansion of Shock-Compressed Metals

• Generation of Superdense Plasma in Shock Waves

• Non-ideal Plasma Generation by Powerful Fluxes of Energy

The following sections are included:

• Partly Ionized Plasma
  • Classical Low-Temperature Plasma
  • Three-Component Electron-Ion-Atomic Plasma
  • Second Virial Coefficient and Partition Function of Atom

• Anomalous Properties of Metal Plasma
  • Physical Properties of Metal Plasma
  • Decrease in the Ionization Potential
  • Charged Clusters
  • Thermodynamics of Multi-particle Clusters
  • “Vapor-Liquid” Phase Transition and Metallization

• Lowering of Ionization Potential and Cluster Ions in a Weakly Non-ideal Plasma
  • Interaction Between Charged Particles and Neutrals
  • Molecular and Cluster Ions
  • Ionization Equilibrium in Alkali Metal Plasma

• Droplet Model of Non-ideal Plasma of Metal Vapors. Anomalously High Electrical Conductivity
  • The Proposed Droplet Model of Non-ideal Plasma
  • Ionization Equilibrium
  • Calculation of the Plasma Composition

• Metallization of Plasma
  • Mott's Transition
  • Quasi-Atomic Model
  • Phase Transition in Metals

The following sections are included:

• One-Component Plasma Against the Neutralizing Background of Compensating Charge
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Results of Calculation
  • Ion-Sphere Model
  • Wigner Crystallization
  • Integral Equations
  • Polarization of Compensating Background
  • Charge Density Waves
  • Sum Rules
  • Asymptotic Expressions and Their Extrapolation
  • OCP of a Mixture of Ions with Z₁ and Z₂ Charges

• Multicomponent Plasma. The Results Derived from the Perturbation Theory

• Pseudopotential Models. Monte Carlo Calculations
  • The Choice of Pseudopotential

• The Bound State Contribution. The Confined Atom Model

• Quasi-Classical Approximation

• Density Functional Method

• A Comparison of Thermodynamic Models

• Phase Transitions in Non-ideal Plasma

The following sections are included:

• Electrical Conductivity of Ideal Partly Ionized Plasma
  • Electrical Conductivity of Weakly Ionized Plasma
  • Electrical Conductivity of Partly Ionized Plasma

• The Coefficient of Electrical Conductivity of Weakly Non-ideal Plasma

• The Electrical Conductivity of Non-ideal Weakly Ionized Plasma
  • The Density of Electron States
  • Electron Mobility and Electrical Conductivity

• The Thermoelectric Coefficient

The following sections are included:

• Kinetic Equations and the Results of Asymptotic Theories

• Electrical Conductivity Measurement Results

• The Results of Calculations of the Coefficient of Electrical Conductivity

• The Coefficient of Electrical Conductivity of Strongly Non-ideal “Cold Plasma”

• The Electrical Conductivity of High-temperature Non-ideal Plasma. The Ion Core Effect

The following sections are included:

• Optical Properties

• Basic Radiation Processes in Rarefied Atomic Plasma

• The Effect of Weak Non-ideality: Spectral Line Broadening and Shift; Photoionization Threshold Shift

• The Microfield Distribution Function in Non-ideal Plasma

• The Principle of Spectroscopic Stability

• Continuous Spectra of Strongly Non-ideal Plasma

• The Optical Properties of Low-Temperature Metal Plasma

The following sections are included:

• The Classification of States of Plasma with CDP

• Ionization Equilibrium in Weakly Non-ideal Plasma with CDP

• Calculation Results

• Ionization Equilibrium Under Conditions of Strong Interparticle Interaction

• Great-Radius Particles. Charge Renormalization

• Relaxation of CDP Particle Distribution

• Electron Mobility

• Radiation of Plasma with CDP

• Some Results of Experimental Investigations

The following sections are included:

• The Thermal Instability of Non-ideal Plasma with Current. Stratification
  • Isobaric Joule heating
    • Thermal instability
  • Comparison With Experiment

• Non-uniform Steady-state Conditions of Joule Heating of Plasma

• Heating Wave
  • Formulation of the Problem
  • Characteristics of the Heating Wave
  • Front Velocity

• The Recombination Coefficient in a Plasma With Multiply Charged Ions

• Hydrodynamic “Explosion” Under Conditions of Low-Temperature Plasma Flow

• Hydrodynamic Effects in Non-ideal Plasma
  • The Position of Isentropes and Phase Boundaries in the p-V-Plane
  • Disintegration of Discontinuity in a Plasma with an Arbitrary Equation of State
  • Shock Wave Stability Relative to Periodic Front Perturbations
  • The Ambiguity of Representation of Thermodynamic States in the p-V-Plane. Shock Waves Under Conditions of Decreasing Plasma Temperature

The following sections are included:

• Appendix 1. Critical Parameters of Metals

• Appendix 2. Transport Cross-Sections of Electron Scattering by Inert Gas Atoms [388]

• Appendix 3. The Electron Work Functions for Metals

• References