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Characterization of Thermal Transport in One-dimensional Solid Materials
Published on: January 26, 2014
Simple estimation of thermodynamic properties of Yukawa systems
S A Khrapak1, A G Khrapak2, A V Ivlev3
1Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, D-85741 Garching, Germany and Joint Institute for High Temperatures RAS, 125412 Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
A simple analytical approach to estimate thermodynamic properties of model Yukawa systems is presented. The approach extends the traditional Debye-Hückel theory into the regime of moderate coupling and is able to qualitatively reproduce thermodynamics of Yukawa systems up to the fluid-solid phase transition. The simplistic equation of state (pressure equation) is derived and applied to the hydrodynamic description of the longitudinal waves in Yukawa fluids. The relevance of this study to the topic of complex (dusty) plasmas is discussed.
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