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LOCATION:2241 Chamberlin Hall
SUMMARY:Is This Even a Plasma?  Physics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas\, 
 Physics Department Colloquium\, Scott Baalrud\, University of Iowa
DESCRIPTION:Plasma is often described as an ionized gas. However\, a r
 apidly growing field of research is concerned with strongly coupled st
 ates of plasma that are more akin to ionized liquids\, solids\, or sup
 ercritical fluids. Strongly coupled plasmas are found in nature\, incl
 uding the interior of giant planets\, the core of stars\, and even in 
 lightning bolts. The recent surge of interest has been driven by the a
 dvent of high-intensity lasers capable of ionizing\, heating and compr
 essing materials to tens of thousands of degrees at near solid density
  or several times compressed. These dense plasmas are not well describ
 ed by either the methods of condensed matter theory (which deals with 
 lower temperatures) or plasma theory (which deals with lower densities
 ). Unique properties of this warm dense state of matter arise due to t
 he combined influence of strong correlations amongst ions and Fermi de
 generacy of electrons. This talk will present a new approach to kineti
 c theory that has made it practical to describe the dynamical transpor
 t properties of dense strongly coupled plasmas. It will also show how 
 we have used simulations enabled by state-of-the-art high-performance 
 computing to validate this theory.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=5314
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