We have developed an experimental platform at the National Ignition Facility that employs
colliding planar shocks to produce warm dense matter with uniform conditions and enable …

We describe a platform to measure the material properties, specifically the equation of state
and electron temperature, at pressures of 100 Mbar to a Gbar at the National Ignition Facility …

The D'yakov-Kontorovich stability criterion for spontaneous emission of acoustic waves
behind shock fronts is investigated for high-temperature carbon, aluminum, silicon, and …

We present the analytic form of the principal Hugoniot at all pressures. It is constructed by
interpolating smoothly between three pressure (P) regimes. Specifically,(i) the low-P regime …

The extended first‐principles molecular dynamics (Ext. FPMD) model introduced by Shen
Zhang et al. has been implemented within the ab initio DFT software package ABINIT and is …

We present a self-consistent model based on a nonrelativistic screened-hydrogenic model
with ℓ-splitting to calculate the equation of state of matter in local thermodynamic …

We propose a method of calculation of thermodynamic functions in the Thomas–Fermi
model at finite temperature θ. Expressions for first and second derivatives of the free energy …

Laboratory measurements of the shock Hugoniot at high pressure, exceeding several
hundred Mbar, are of great importance in the understanding and accurate modeling of …

A wide‐range semiempirical equation of state for aluminum applicable both at near‐normal
conditions and in dense plasma is presented. The finite‐temperature Thomas–Fermi model …

We present an approach for the realization of extreme off-Hugoniot states of matter in laser-
driven shock experiments. The method is based on the application of impedance-mismatch …