Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Applied to Average Atom Opacity

We focus on studying the opacity of iron, chromium, and nickel plasmas at conditions relevant to experiments carried out at Sandia National Laboratories [J. E. Bailey et al., Nature 517, 56 (2015)]. We calculate the photo-absorption cross-sections and subsequent opacity for plasmas using linear resp...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Gill, N M, Fontes, C J, Starrett, C E
Format Paper Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 21.01.2021
Subjects
Absorption cross sections
Chromium
Density functional theory
Experiments
Iron
Nickel
Opacity
Physics - Plasma Physics
Plasmas
Response time
Time dependence
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Summary:We focus on studying the opacity of iron, chromium, and nickel plasmas at conditions relevant to experiments carried out at Sandia National Laboratories [J. E. Bailey et al., Nature 517, 56 (2015)]. We calculate the photo-absorption cross-sections and subsequent opacity for plasmas using linear response time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT). Our results indicate that the physics of channel mixing accounted for in linear response TD-DFT leads to an increase in the opacity in the bound-free quasi-continuum, where the Sandia experiments indicate that models under-predict iron opacity. However, the increase seen in our calculations is only in the range of 5-10%. Further, we do not see any change in this trend for chromium and nickel. This behavior indicates that channel mixing effects do not explain the trends in opacity observed in the Sandia experiments.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2104.00551