Publikationsrepositorium - Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Warm dense matter (WDM) is an exotic phase of matter which lies at the intersection between the condensed-matter and plasma physics communities. Understanding the behaviour of materials under WDM conditions is important for nuclear fusion research, and astro and planetary physics. Average-atom models are widely-used in WDM research, but the large number of models available and lack of open-source availability makes them hard to understand and use. In this talk, we first derive an average-atom model from first principles, then introduce our Python library atoMEC, which aims to facilitate development and comparison of average-atom models.