Opacity of Hot and Dense Plasmas of a Mixture using an Average-Atom Approach

• 来源期刊: 中国物理快报（英文版）
• 学科: 物理学
• 年，卷（期）: 2002,（10）
• 页码范围: 1459-1462
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: O4
• 语种: 英文

摘要

An average-atom model is proposed to calculate the opacities of hot and dense plasmas of a mixture. A self-consistent scheme is used to reach the requirements of the same temperature and chemical potential for all kinds ofatoms in the mixtures, the same electron density at the boundaries between the atoms, and the electrical neutralitywithin each atomic sphere. The orbital energies and wavefunctions for the bound electrons are calculated withthe Dirac-Slater equations. The occupation numbers at each orbital of each kind of atom are determined by theFermi-Dirac distribution with the same chemical potential for all kinds of atoms. As an example, the opacity ofthe mixture of Au and Cd is calculated at a few temperatures and densities.