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COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS
Volume 1, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-018-0093-5
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- Science Challenge Project [TZ2018005]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFA0403202]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11674394]
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Continuum atomic processes initiated by photons and electrons occurring in a plasma are fundamental in plasma physics, playing a key role in the determination of ionization balance, equation of state, and opacity. Here we propose the notion of a transient space localization of electrons produced during the ionization of atoms immersed in a hot dense plasma, which can significantly modify the fundamental properties of ionization processes. A theoretical formalism is developed to study the wavefunctions of the continuum electrons that takes into consideration the quantum de-coherence caused by coupling with the plasma environment. The method is applied to the photoionization of Fe16+ embedded in hot dense plasmas. We find that the cross section is considerably enhanced compared with the predictions of the existing isolated-atom model, and thereby partly explains the big difference between the measured opacity of Fe plasma and the existing standard models for short wavelengths.
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