Properties of warm dense matter at low entropies☆
Abstract
We describe the qualitative properties of warm dense matter on adiabats, paying particular attention to their behavior in the vicinity of phase transitions. The equation of state of matter on the adiabat corresponding to an entropy of 1 kB per nucleon is calculated within the compressible liquid drop model for nuclei.
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This research was supported in part by US National Science Foundation grants NSF PHY80-25605 and NSF PHY82-01948, and by US Department of Energy contract ACO2-80ER-10712.
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow.