Fortov - Lectures on the Physics of Extreme States of Matter

Lectures on the Physics of Extreme States of Matter

Vladimir E Fortov

Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Moscow, Russia

IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK

IOP Publishing Ltd 2019

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ISBN 978-0-7503-2128-0 (ebook)

ISBN 978-0-7503-2126-6 (print)

ISBN 978-0-7503-2127-3 (mobi)

DOI 10.1088/2053-2563/ab1091

Version: 20190801

IOP Expanding Physics

ISSN 2053-2563 (online)

ISSN 2054-7315 (print)

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This book is based on the lectures delivered by the author at the Higher School of Physics founded by ROSATOM State Corporation, as well as on plenary, review and invited papers presented at scientific conferences and symposia.

I am grateful for the opportunity to acquaint students of the School with the current state and prospects for the development of the physics of extreme states of matter, with the advantages and limitations of various experimental methods of generation and diagnostics, and with the results achieved.

In this course, the author has made an attempt to systematize, summarize and present, from a single point of view, theoretical and experimental material relating to this new field of science. In addition to the extensive scientific literature, the author has used a large number of original papers, reports and abstracts that are not widely available to a wide audience.

In view of the vastness and dissimilarity of the material, the presentation is mainly of a fact-finding nature, referring the reader to relevant reviews and monographs. Therefore, many interesting astrophysical, laser and nuclear physics problems, as well as technical applications, are presented briefly, sometimes even schematically. The author, of course, did not set a goal to include everything that is known today about extreme states of matter. The emphasis is laid particularly on those issues that seem most interesting to the author and on which he and his colleagues had to work directly.