We recast the atomic processes in a warm, dense plasma using Fermi-Dirac statistics and compare them to the rates of the usual Maxwell-Boltzmann approach of many collisional-radiative models. Population calculations show insignificant differences to calculations assuming nondegenerate free electrons of plasmas at solid density close to local thermodynamic equilibrium, but show departures in average ionization in the presence of strong photoionization. For example, we show that electron degeneracy affects the evolution of plasmas created by ultraviolet free electron laser interaction with solid targets.
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J Chem Phys
January 2025
Moscow Center for Advanced Studies, Moscow, Russia.
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January 2025
Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States.
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November 2024
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
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CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France.
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