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ArticleNature communications2025

Unraveling electronic correlations in warm dense quantum plasmas.

Tobias Dornheim, Tilo Döppner, Panagiotis Tolias, Maximilian P Böhme, Luke B Fletcher, Thomas Gawne, Frank R Graziani, Dominik Kraus, Michael J MacDonald, Zhandos A Moldabekov and 3 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Tobias DornheimCenter for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), Görlitz, Germany. t.dornheim@hzdr.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7293-6615
Tilo DöppnerLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5703-7125
Panagiotis ToliasSpace and Plasma Physics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9632-8104
Maximilian P BöhmeCenter for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), Görlitz, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0290-3628
Luke B FletcherSLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7120-7194
Thomas GawneCenter for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), Görlitz, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-3606
Frank R GrazianiLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7204-0509
Dominik KrausHelmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6350-4180
Michael J MacDonaldLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6295-6978
Zhandos A MoldabekovCenter for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), Görlitz, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9725-9208
Sebastian SchwalbeCenter for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), Görlitz, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4561-0158
Dirk O GerickeCentre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6797-9004
Jan VorbergerHelmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5926-9192

Funding

EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) 101076233
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The study of matter at extreme densities and temperatures has emerged as a highly active frontier at the interface of plasma physics, material science and quantum chemistry with relevance for planetary modeling and inertial confinement fusion. A particular feature of such warm dense matter is the complex interplay of Coulomb interactions, quantum effects, and thermal excitations, making its rigorous theoretical description challenging. Here, we demonstrate how ab initio path integral Monte Carlo simulations allow us to unravel this intricate interplay for the example of strongly compressed beryllium, focusing on two X-ray Thomson scattering data sets obtained at the National Ignition Facility. We find excellent agreement between simulation and experiment with a very high level of consistency between independent observations without the need for any empirical input parameters. Our results call into question previously used chemical models, with important implications for the interpretation of scattering experiments and radiation hydrodynamics simulations.

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