%0 Journal Article
%T A Model of Calculating Radiative Opacities of Hot Dense Plasmas Based on the Density-Functional Theory
%A Shuji Kiyokawa
%J Journal of Atomic and Molecular Physics
%D 2014
%R 10.1155/2014/431592
%X We determine the radiative opacity of plasmas in a local thermal equilibrium (LTE) by time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) including autoionization resonances, where the photoabsorption cross section is calculated for an ion embedded in the plasma using the detailed configuration accounting (DCA) method. The abundance of ion with integer occupation numbers is determined by means of the finite temperature density-functional theory (FTDFT). For an Al plasma of temperature £¿eV and density 0.01£¿g/cm3, we show the opacity and the photoabsorption cross section of b-f and b-b transitions with Doppler and Stark width, and also show a result that the Planck and Rosseland mean opacities are 28,348£¿cm2/g and 4,279£¿cm2/g, respectively. 1. Introduction For investigation of hot dense plasmas, the density-functional theory has been used to calculate their atomic properties and has provided reliable data such as electronic structure, equation of state (EOS), and opacity [1¨C7]. Particularly, the study of radiative properties of inertial confinement plasmas, interior of stars, and so on is important and theoretically great interest for the reason that the thermal properties and the electronic ones of plasmas are closely correlated with each other. The most popular model for the hot dense plasmas is the average atom (AA) model [5, 8¨C11], and it has been employed vigorously to study the opacity [12] and so on. However, as an actual LTE plasma is composed of various ions in different excited states and charge states; the spectral structure of LTE plasma is very complex because of the enormous number of transition lines. The method of the supertransition array (STA) [7, 12¨C14] has been used to analyze such a complex line spectrum of an ion in a LTE plasma. For the dense plasmas, autoionization is an intrinsically crucial atomic process and is important for treatments of plasma opacity, but the autoionization and the ion-ion pair distribution function are not treated in calculations of the opacities by STA. One of methods of calculating the autoionization in the dense plasmas is the time-dependent density-functional theory which is treated the autoionization resonance as the dynamical linear response of electronic system. To calculate the opacity of plasmas, we have considered the time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) to treat the photoabsorption cross section of plasmas, where the autoionization process is included without using any other code [15]. In this method, LTE plasmas are treated by finite temperature density-functional theory (FTDFT) [16, 17]
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