Charge-charge coupling effects on dipole emitter relaxation within a classical electron-ion plasma description.
Studies of charge-charge (ion-ion, ion-electron, and electron-electron) coupling properties for ion impurities in an electron gas are carried out on the basis of a regularized electron-ion potential without short-range Coulomb divergence. This work is motivated, in part, by questions arising from recent spectroscopic measurements revealing discrepancies with present-day theoretical descriptions. Many of the current radiative property models for plasmas include only single electron-emitter collisions and neglect some or all charge-charge interactions. A molecular-dynamics simulation of dipole relaxation is proposed here to allow proper account of many electron-emitter interactions and all charge-charge couplings. As illustrations, molecular-dynamics simulations are reported for the cases of a single ion embedded in an electron plasma and for a two-component ion-electron plasma. Charge-charge coupling effects are discussed for hydrogen-like Balmer alpha lines at weak coupling conditions.
Dufour
Emmanuelle
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UMR6633, Université de Provence, Centre Saint Jérôme, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France.
Calisti
Annette
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Talin
Bernard
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Gigosos
Marco A
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González
Manuel A
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del Río Gaztelurrutia
Teresa
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Dufty
James W
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