Dynamic characteristics of strongly coupled classical one-component Coulomb and Yukawa plasmas are obtained within the nonperturbative model-free moment approach without any data input from simulations so that the dynamic structure factor (DSF) satisfies the first three nonvanishing sum rules automatically. The DSF, dispersion, decay, sound speed, and other characteristics of the collective modes are determined using exclusively the static structure factor calculated from various theoretical approaches including the hypernetted chain approximation. A good quantitative agreement with molecular dynamics simulation data is achieved. . SCPs and warm dense matter are highly relevant model systems for inertial fusion devices [6]. The common property of SCPs is that the interparticle potential energy dominates over the thermal energy. Many of the above-mentioned systems have been analyzed and their characteristic effects became understood within the framework of a seminal model system, the one-component plasma (OCP) model that considers explicitly only one type of charged species, while the presence and the effects of other charged species are expressed by the interaction potential φðrÞ.SCPs, as many-body dynamical systems, exhibit various collective excitations, of which the properties have been investigated both via theoretical approaches and numerical simulations. Numerical approaches provide direct access to the central quantity of collective effects, the dynamic structure factor (DSF). The most successful theoretical approach capable of describing strongly coupled plasmas, the quasilocalized charge approximation [7], is able to predict [from the static pair distribution function (PDF)] the dispersion relations of the collective modes; however, it cannot predict the lifetime (decay) of the modes and the form of the DSF itself. Here we demonstrate that the method of moments theoretical approach [8] is able to predict the form and structure of the DSF of the OCP, based on static data only, i.e., the PDF or the static structure factor (SSF). As both the PDF and the SSF can be obtained theoretically as well [e.g., within the hypernetted chain (HNC) approximation and its modifications including the bridge function] the present approach provides a purely theoretical access to the full DSF and a full quantitative description of the collective modes, including their decay and other characteristics, without the necessity to use simulation data as input, as it was done in [9,10].The moment approach is nonperturbative, nonparametric, and model free. Thus it is perfectly applicable to a broad class of fluids characterized by response functions like semidegenerate multicomponent Coulomb systems or even simple liquids. Because of the rigorous mathematical background, the method is based on automatic satisfaction of sum rules and other exact relations. An empirical guidance is plugged directly into the intermediate step of theoretical computations, thus closing the approach and permitting us, in addition, to determine the dynamic...

The dynamic characteristics of strongly coupled one-component plasmas are studied within the moment approach. Our results on the dynamic structure factor and the dynamic local-field correction satisfy the sum rules and other exact relations automatically. A quantitative agreement is obtained with numerous simulation data on the plasma dynamic properties, including the dispersion and decay of collective modes. Our approach allows us to correct and complement the results previously found with other treatments.

The dynamics of the ion structure in warm dense matter is determined by molecular dynamics simulations using an effective ion-ion potential. This potential is obtained from ab initio simulations and has a strong short-range repulsion added to a screened Coulomb potential. Models based on static or dynamic local field corrections are found to be insufficient to describe the data. An extended Mermin approach, a hydrodynamic model and the method of moments with local constraints are capable of reproducing the numerical results but have rather limited predictive powers as they all need some numerical data as input. The method of moments is found to be the most promising.

Abstract. The description of all solutions of the truncated Stieltjes matrix moment problem consisting in finding all s × s matrix measures dσ (t) on [0, ∞) with given first 2n + 1 power s × s matrix moments (Cj ) n j=0 is obtained in a general case, when the block Hankel matrix Γn := (C j+k ) n j,k=0 may be non-invertible. Special attention is paid to the description of canonical solutions for which dσ (t) is a sum of at most sn + s point matrix "masses" with the minimal sum of their ranks. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). Primary 30E05, 30E10; Secondary 82C70, 82D10.

Mathematical, particularly, asymptotic properties of the random-phase approximation, Mermin approximation, and extended Mermin-type approximation of the coupled plasma dielectric function are analyzed within the method of moments. These models are generalized for two-component plasmas. Some drawbacks and advantages of the above models are pointed out. The two-component plasma stopping power is shown to be enhanced with respect to that of the electron fluid.