RESISTIVITY AND DYNAMIC CONDUCTIVITY OF LASER-PULSE HEATED ALUMINUM UP TO 106-K AND ALONG THE SHOCK HUGONIOT UP TO 20 MBARS

We report first principles calculations of the resistivity of (i) "solid-density" aluminum up to electron temperatures T(e) of 10(6) K under conditions as reported by Milchberg et al., and (ii) along the shock Hugoniot up to 20 Mbar using self-consistent Al-electronic structures, scattering cross sections, and ion-correlation functions for each density and temperature. If the ion temperature T(i) not-equal T(e), the corresponding non-equilibrium dynamic resistivity, containing novel dissipative terms, has been calculated.