ELECTRICAL-CONDUCTIVITY OF NONIDEAL PLASMA

An approach is developed to the problem of the electrical conductivity of nondegenerate, highly ionized, nonideal plasma. A linear response theory is used in computations. The electron trajectories required for the computation are obtained by a molecular dynamics method. The difference between the real electron trajectory from the classical one is taken into account by changing the electron-ion interaction potential at small distances. Additionally, a correction factor is introduced into the expression which should be averaged. The trajectories are computed for a set of initial configurations of electrons and ions obtained by the Monte-Carlo method, and the results are averaged. An electrical conductivity computation has been performed at Debye numbers from 0.5 to 0.05.