Collaborative Research: Research on Strongly Coupled Plasmas

强耦合等离子体理论/计算研究合作项目 将由波士顿学院（BC; Gabor J. Kalman博士，主要研究者）继续进行， 佛蒙特大学（UVM; Kenneth I.强库仑相互作用是各种物理系统的特征。原发性 感兴趣是实验室尘埃等离子体、被限制在低温阱中的带电粒子 存储环，半导体量子威尔斯中的分层带电粒子系统，以及 天体物理等离子体（例如，巨大的行星和白色矮星内部）。BC/UVM 研究项目将集中在这些系统上。拟议的研究解决了一些与强耦合系统中的实验相关的主要理论问题：相关性和静态结构函数， 热力学（状态方程和相边界），介电响应和 集体模式行为类似的问题出现在多层半导体等离子体中， 考虑因素亦是建议工作的一部分。建议调查所采用的主要方法是进行一系列工作， 主要研究者，其中一种方法特别适合于描述 计算了强耦合（关联）等离子体的动力学行为。这种方法， 被称为准定域电荷近似，在以前的资助中使用 期间，并提供了理论，透明的模型，为解释实验室 实验和计算机模拟。这一分析工作将由分子水平的 与匈牙利研究小组合作完成的动力学模拟 科学院（布达佩斯）]。

A Collaborative Project of theoretical/computational research on strongly coupled plasmas will be continued by Boston College (BC; Dr. Gabor J. Kalman, Principal Investigator) and the University of Vermont (UVM; Dr. Kenneth I. Golden, Principal Investigator).Strong Coulomb interactions are featured by a variety of physical systems. Of primary interest are laboratory dusty plasmas, charged particles confined in cryogenic traps and storage rings, layered charged particle systems in semiconductor quantum wells, and astrophysical plasmas (giant planetary and white dwarf interiors, e.g.). The joint BC/UVM research project will focus on these systems.The proposed research addresses some of the major theoretical issues related toExperiments in strongly coupled systems: correlation and static structure functions, thermodynamics (equation of state and phase boundaries), dielectric response and collective mode behavior. Similar issues arise in multi-layer semiconductor plasmas whose consideration also forms a part of the proposed work.The main approach to be used in the proposed investigations relies on a series of works by the Principal Investigators in which a method especially appropriate for the description of the dynamical behavior of strongly coupled (correlated) plasmas was worked out. This method, referred to as the Quasi-Localized Charge Approximation, was used in the previous funding periods and has provided theoretical, transparent models for the interpretation of laboratory experiments and computer simulations. This analytical work will be paralleled by molecular dynamics simulations done in collaboration with a research group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest)].