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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
A word to the reader
From the editorial board
Author’s preface
Acknowledgements
Author biography
Introduction
1 Lecture 1: Matter under extreme conditions: classification of states
References
2 Lecture 2: Extreme states of matter in laboratories
2.1 Main lines of research
2.2 Generators of high energy densities
2.2.1 Static methods using diamond anvils
2.2.2 Dynamic methods
2.2.3 Light-gas guns and chemical high explosives
2.2.4 Underground nuclear explosions
2.2.5 Explosive-driven magnetic generators
2.2.6 Devices of high-current pulsed electronics
2.3 High-power lasers
2.4 Charged-particle accelerators
2.4.1 Large Hadron Collider
2.4.2 FAIR project
2.4.3 Heavy-ion experiments in the NICA project
2.5 Technical applications
2.5.1 Magnetic confinement fusion
2.5.2 Laser inertial confinement fusion
2.5.3 Heavy-ion beam fusion
2.5.4 Laser-plasma acceleration of charged particles
2.5.5 Synchrotron sources, free-electron lasers, and terahertz generators
References
3 Lecture 3: Interaction of laser radiation with matter
3.1 Physical effects arising under high-power laser irradiation
3.2 Laser-driven shock waves
3.3 Mechanics of ultrafast deformations
3.3.1 Mechanical properties in ultrafast deformations
3.3.2 Dynamic strength of melts and solid phases of metals
3.4 Strong magnetic fields
References
4 Lecture 4: Collisions of relativistic ions
4.1 Accelerators
4.2 Production of macroscopic hot plasma volumes
4.3 Quark–gluon plasma
4.4 Viscosity and interparticle interaction
References
5 Lecture 5: Physics of strongly compressed electromagnetic plasma
5.1 Hierarchy of models
5.2 Chemical model of plasma
5.2.1 Thermodynamics of shock-compressed plasma at megabar pressures: nonideality and degeneracy
5.2.2 Gas thermodynamics
5.2.3 Metal plasma thermodynamics
5.3 Density functional method
5.3.1 Atomic and molecular structures
5.3.2 Condensed media
References
6 Lecture 6: Extreme states of matter in astrophysics
6.1 Planets, exoplanets, and low-mass stars
6.1.1 Planets of the Solar System
6.1.2 Exoplanets
6.1.3 Low-mass stars and substars
6.1.4 Brown and white dwarfs
6.2 Superextreme states of matter in compact astrophysical objects
6.2.1 Neutron and quark stars
6.2.2 Magnetars
6.2.3 Strange stars
6.2.4 Black holes
References
7 Conclusion
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