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Diffusion in Coulomb Plasmas Across Coupling Regimes

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Abstract

We use molecular dynamics simulations to calculate the diffusion coefficients of Coulomb plasmas with percent-level precision. In previous work we focused on screening lengths typical for white dwarf astrophysics and developed a simple empirical model for diffusion for use in stellar evolution codes. In this work, we perform additional simulations over a wider range of couplings to further generalize our model, which may have applications in charged soft matter systems.

Publication: Caplan & Freeman MNRAS 505.1 (2021): 45-49.

Presenters

  • Ian F Freeman

    Illinois State University

Authors

  • Ian F Freeman

    Illinois State University

  • Matthew E Caplan

    Illinois State University