ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors consider the electric and thermal resistivity in such dense plasmas. They explain novel features observed already in the metal–insulator transitions. The strong electron-ion coupling thus opens up new dimensions in condensed plasma physics, whereby interplay with the atomic and molecular physics plays a central part. A dense plasma material may be modeled as a two-component plasma (TCP) constituted by electrons and ions. In the TCP, attractive interaction between electrons and ions, an essential ingredient for the formation of atoms, brings about novel features in that the strong correlations between electrons and ions are taken into account on an equal footing with the atomic and molecular processes in such a condensed environment. W. B. Hubbard and Lampe investigated thermal conduction by electrons in dense stellar matter through a Chapman–Enskog solution to the quantum-mechanical transport equation in weak Coulomb coupling.
