Abstract:In this paper dense hydrogen plasma, which is of considerable interest in both theoretical and practical areas such as non-ideal plasma encountered in thermonuclear reactors, is considered. The structural and thermodynamic properties of dense non-ideal hydrogen plasma were investigated. Potentials taking into account the quantum-mechanical effects of diffraction and symmetry have been used as a model of interaction. The symmetry effect was considered for the different directions of spin of electrons. Pair correlation functions have been obtained in the solution for the integral equation of the Ornstein-Zernike in hyper-netted chain approximation on the basis of the interaction potentials. Thermodynamic properties for hydrogen plasma were calculated using the interaction potentials and pair correlation functions. The quantum symmetry effect weakens the interaction between the charged particles leading to a decrease in the absolute value of the non-ideal part of the thermodynamic characteristics of the dense plasma. The symmetry effect is more pronounced for higher values of density.UDC Classification: 533.9; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v5.1082Keywords: plasma, potential, structural, thermodynamic.
IntroductionOne of the main problems of modern plasma physics is obtaining thermodynamic properties of a nonideal plasma in a wide range of parameters. In this paper, the model of interparticle interactions, which takes into account quantum-mechanical effects of diffraction and symmetry, was used to study properties of dense non-ideal hydrogen plasma (Moldabekov, 2012). The quantum-mechanical effect of symmetry takes into account the Pauli principle, which prohibits the simultaneous presence of two identical particles with a half-integer spin (in this case, electrons) in the same state, hence reducing the probability of finding particles at a distance from each other.
Interaction potentialsIn the work conducted by Moldabekov (2012), interaction potentials used in this paper that take into account quantum-mechanical effects of diffraction and symmetry were obtained: