Liquid metals : concepts and theory

Preface 1. Outline 2. Pair correlation function and structure factors of ions 3. Thermodynamics 4. Electron screening and effective ion-ion interactions 5. Inter-ionic forces and structural theories 6. Statistical mechanics of inhomogeneous systems and freezing theory 7. Electronic and atomic transport 8. Hydrodynamic limits of correlation functions and neutron inelastic scattering 9. Critical behaviour 10. Electronic states, including critical region 11. Magnetism of normal and especially of expanded liquid metals 12. Liquid-vapour surface 13. Binary liquid metal alloys 14. Two-component theory of pure liquid metals 15. Shock wave studies 16. Liquid hydrogen plasmas and constitution of Jupiter Appendices References Index.