Theory of Equilibrium and Kinetic Properties of Liquid Metals

If dense plasmas in the region of about 1021 particles per cm3 are cooled below the critical temperature T c ≈ 104 К the uniform state becomes unstable and the system divides into two phases, a liquid and a gaseous one. In metallic systems the liquid phase is highly conducting and shows many similarities with the plasma state. Because the theoretical description of dense gaseous plasmas should be consistent with the theory of liquid metals, in this chapter some aspects of the liquid metal theory are presented.