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Matthew Foulkes

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Physics
 
 
 
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810Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

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@article{Dornheim:2017:10.1063/1.4977920,
author = {Dornheim, T and Groth, S and Malone, FD and Schoof, T and Sjostrom, T and Foulkes, WMC and Bonitz, M},
doi = {10.1063/1.4977920},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
pages = {056303--1--056303--10},
title = {Ab initio quantum Monte Carlo simulation of the warm dense electron gas},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4977920},
volume = {24},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Warm dense matter is one of the most active frontiers in plasma physics due to its relevance for denseastrophysical objects as well as for novel laboratory experiments in which matter is being strongly compressede.g. by high-power lasers. Its description is theoretically very challenging as it contains correlated quantumelectrons at  nite temperature|a system that cannot be accurately modeled by standard analytical or groundstate approaches. Recently several breakthroughs have been achieved in the  eld of fermionic quantum MonteCarlo simulations. First, it was shown that exact simulations of a  nite model system (30 : : : 100 electrons)is possible that avoid any simplifying approximations such as  xed nodes [Schoof et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.115, 130402 (2015)]. Second, a novel way to accurately extrapolate these results to the thermodynamic limitwas reported by Dornheim et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 156403 (2016)]. As a result, now thermodynamicresults for the warm dense electron gas are available that have an unprecedented accuracy on the order of0:1%. Here we present an overview on these results and discuss limitations and future directions.
AU  - Dornheim,T
AU  - Groth,S
AU  - Malone,FD
AU  - Schoof,T
AU  - Sjostrom,T
AU  - Foulkes,WMC
AU  - Bonitz,M
DO  - 10.1063/1.4977920
EP  - 1
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 1089-7674
SP  - 056303
TI  - Ab initio quantum Monte Carlo simulation of the warm dense electron gas
T2  - Physics of Plasmas
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4977920
UR  - http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pop/24/5/10.1063/1.4977920
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/44705
VL  - 24
ER  -
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