Warm dense matter is the state between the heated condensed matter and plasma. The importance of the development of warm dense matter theoretical description is determined by the fact that such conditions may arise in the variety of different scientific and industrial applications. For instance, warm dense matter is formed: in the matter impacted by femto‐ and picoseconds laser pulses; in nuclear materials at the formation of radiation track, etc. In these phenomena, the initial state of the system is a two‐temperature state and the electron temperature may be several orders higher than the ion one. In this work, the attempt of development of the united atomistic model of a warm dense matter is carried out. The special consideration is given to the twotemperature effects and the influence of the electron pressure on the behavior of ions. (© 2013 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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The process of ablation of a gold target by femto and picosecond laser radiation pulses has been studied by numerical simulations using an atomistic model with allowance for the electron subsystem and the dependence of the ion-ion interaction potential on the electron temperature. Using this potential, it is pos sible to take into account the change in the physical properties of the ion subsystem as a result of heating of the electron subsystem. The results of simulations reveal a significant difference between the characteristics of metal ablation by laser pulses of various durations. For ablation with subpicosecond pulses, two mecha nisms of metal fracture related to the evolution of electronic pressure in the system are established.