https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2011-20432-5
Regular Article
Self-consistent modelling of hot plasmas within non-extensive Tsallis’ thermostatistics
CEA, DAM, DIF, 91297
Arpajon,
France
a e-mail: jean-christophe.pain@cea.fr
Received:
10
July
2011
Published online:
22
November
2011
A study of the effects of non-extensivity on the modelling of atomic physics in hot dense plasmas is proposed within Tsallis’ statistics. The electronic structure of the plasma is calculated through an average-atom model based on the minimization of the non-extensive free energy.
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag 2011