Warm dense matter through classical molecular dynamics

Abstract

A classical Molecular Dynamics code has been developed to simulate dense plasmas i.e. neutral systems of interacting ions and electrons. Our goal is to design a tool that relies on a reduced set of microscopic mechanisms in order to obtain solutions of complex time dependent N-body problems and to allow an efficient description of the plasma states between classical high temperature systems to strongly coupled plasmas. Our present objective is an attempt to explore the behavior of such a classical approach for typical conditions of warm dense matter. We calculate the dynamic structure factor in warm dense beryllium by means of our molecular dynamics simulations. The results are then compared with those obtained within the framework of the random phase approximation (RPA).