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Interspecies radiative transition in warm and superdense plasma mixtures.


ABSTRACT: Superdense plasmas widely exist in planetary interiors and astrophysical objects such as brown-dwarf cores and white dwarfs. How atoms behave under such extreme-density conditions is not yet well understood, even in single-species plasmas. Here, we apply thermal density functional theory to investigate the radiation spectra of superdense iron-zinc plasma mixtures at mass densities of ? = 250 to 2000?g?cm-3 and temperatures of kT = 50 to 100?eV, accessible by double-shell-target implosions. Our ab initio calculations reveal two extreme atomic-physics phenomena-firstly, an interspecies radiative transition; and, secondly, the breaking down of the dipole-selection rule for radiative transitions in isolated atoms. Our first-principles calculations predict that for superdense plasma mixtures, both interatomic radiative transitions and dipole-forbidden transitions can become comparable to the normal intra-atomic K?-emission signal. These physics phenomena were not previously considered in detail for extreme high-density plasma mixtures at super-high energy densities.

SUBMITTER: Hu SX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7181684 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Interspecies radiative transition in warm and superdense plasma mixtures.

Hu S X SX   Karasiev V V VV   Recoules V V   Nilson P M PM   Brouwer N N   Torrent M M  

Nature communications 20200424 1


Superdense plasmas widely exist in planetary interiors and astrophysical objects such as brown-dwarf cores and white dwarfs. How atoms behave under such extreme-density conditions is not yet well understood, even in single-species plasmas. Here, we apply thermal density functional theory to investigate the radiation spectra of superdense iron-zinc plasma mixtures at mass densities of ρ = 250 to 2000 g cm<sup>-3</sup> and temperatures of kT = 50 to 100 eV, accessible by double-shell-target implos  ...[more]

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