Quantum-mechanical calculation of ionization-potential lowering in dense plasmas

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Son, Sang Kil ^a,b   Thiele, Robert ^a,b   Jurek, Zoltan ^a,b   Ziaja, Beata ^a,b,c   Santra, Robin ^a,b  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Optics; Plasma Physics

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; FORECASTING; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; OPTICS; PLASMAS; X RAY LASERS;

HARTREE FOCK SLATERS; NONEQUILIBRIUM PLASMAS; PARAMETER-FREE MODELING; PLASMA PHYSICS; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL CALCULATION; THEORETICAL APPROACH; WIDE-RANGING APPLICATIONS; X-RAY FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84904568447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.031004     Document Type: Article

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