Electronic transport in dense fully ionized hydrogen

Abstract

Electronic transport is considered in dense fully ionized hydrogen. The equivalence of the Boltzmann-Ziman approach with the more deductive Kubo formalism for weak electron-ion interactions is established. The ionic structure factors obtained from recent and improved Monte Carlo simulation of the classical one-component plasma are used to obtain the linear time-independent transport coefficients. The effects of inelastic electron scattering from the ionic density fluctuations are taken into account. The electrical and thermal conductivities, the conductive opacity, the bulk viscosity, and the thermoelectric power at different densities and temperatures are tabulated. These results are compared with previous calculations.