Extreme States of Matter: High Energy Density Physics

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With its many beautiful colour pictures, this book gives fascinating insights into the unusual forms and behaviour of matter under extremely high pressures and temperatures. These extreme states are generated, among other things, by strong shock, detonation and electric explosion waves, dense laser beams, electron and ion beams, hypersonic entry of spacecraft into dense atmospheres of planets and in many other situations characterized by extremely high pressures and temperatures. Written by one of the world's foremost experts on the topic, this book will inform and fascinate all scientists dealing with materials properties and physics and also serve as an excellent introduction to plasma-, shock-wave and high-energy-density physics for students and newcomers seeking an overview. This second edition is thoroughly revised and expanded, in particular with new material on high energy-density physics, nuclear explosions and other nuclear transformation processes.

Author(s): Vladimir E. Fortov
Series: Springer Series in Materials Science
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2016

Language: English
Pages: 714
Tags: Plasma Physics; Astrophysics and Astroparticles; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems; Applied and Technical Physics

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Matter Under Extreme Conditions: Classification of States....Pages 7-22
High Energy Densities in Laboratories....Pages 23-89
Extreme States in a Nuclear Explosion....Pages 91-166
High-Power Lasers in High-Energy-Density Physics....Pages 167-275
Relativistic Charged Particle Beams....Pages 277-402
Technical Applications of the Physics of High Energy Densities....Pages 403-464
Nuclear Transformations Under Strong Compression....Pages 465-503
High Energy Densities in Planets and Stars....Pages 505-590
High Energy Densities Outside of Compact Astrophysical Objects....Pages 591-698
Conclusion....Pages 699-700