Simulation Studies of Ion Dynamic Effects on Dense Plasma Line Shapes

摘要

Computer simulations have been widely used in studying dense plasma properties including the local field properties important in spectral line broadening calculations. We will review here a more recent use of simulation, possibly less familiar to this audience, where the time dependent ionic microfield generated by computer simulation of a plasma is used directly as a time dependent external potential for the evolution of the electronic structure of an ion. This permits calculation of the dipole correlation function and thus line shapes with the inclusion of ion dynamic effects. 12 refs., 7 figs. (ERA citation 12:012598)