Nikiforov A.F., Novikov V.G., Uvarov V.B. Quantum-Statistical Models of Hot Dense Matter. Methods for Computation Opacity and Equation of State

Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, Berlin, 2005, 439 pp. - ISBN 3-7643-2183-0.
In the processes studied in contemporary physics one encounters the most diverse conditions: temperatures ranging from absolute zero to those found in the cores of stars, and densities ranging from those of gases to densities tens of times larger than those of a solid body. Accordingly, the solution of many problems of mode physics requires an increasingly large volume of information about the properties of matter under various conditions, including extreme ones. At the same time, there is a demand for an increasing accuracy of these data, due to the fact that the reliability and computational substantiation of many unique technological devices and physical installations depends on them.
Contents
Preface
The generalized Thomas-Fermi model
Electron wave functions in a given potential
Quantum-statistical self-consistent field models
The Hartree-Fock-Slater model for the average atom
Interaction of radiation with matter
The equation of state
Methods for solving the Schrodinger and Dirac equations
Analytic methods
Approximation methods
Numerical methods
Bibliography
Index