Temperature Relaxation in Hot Dense Hydrogen
Temperature Relaxation in Hot Dense Hydrogen
Temperature equilibration of hydrogen is studied for conditions relevant to inertial confinement fusion. New molecular-dynamics simulations and results from quantum many-body theory are compared with Landau-Spitzer predictions for temperatures $T$ with $50<T<4000\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{eV}$ and densities with Wigner-Seitz radii ${r}_{s}=1.0$ and 0.5. The relaxation is slower than the Landau-Spitzer result, …