Fig. 1. Effective potential of interaction of an electron with a hydrogen ion with (dashed lines) and without (solid lines) the electronic nonideality correction γ for two different values of the degeneracy parameter θ = 0.1 and 1 at fixed values of the density parameter r_s = 0.5 (a), 1 (b), and 3 (c).

Fig. 2. Correction to electronic screening from Eq. (6) as a function of the degeneracy parameter θ for different values of the density parameter r_s.

Fig. 3. Inverse screening lengths k_e (a) and k_s (b) in units of a_B as functions of the degeneracy parameter θ for different values of the density parameter r_s with (dashed lines) and without (solid lines) account being taken of exchange-correlation effects.

Fig. 4. Transport cross-sections of electron–ion scattering with (dashed lines) and without (solid lines) the electronic nonideality correction γ for three different values of the density parameter r_s = 0.5, 1, and 3 at fixed values of the degeneracy parameter θ = 0.5 (a), 1 (b), and (c) 3.

Fig. 5. Coulomb logarithm as a function of the degeneracy parameter θ for different values of the density parameter r_s for cases with (dashed lines) and without (solid lines) the electronic nonideality correction γ.

Fig. 6. Temperature relaxation time between electrons and ions at different densities with (dashed lines) and without (solid lines) the electronic nonideality correction γ.

Fig. 7. Electron–ion collisional relaxation rate as a function of temperature in solid-density (ρ = 2.7 g·cm⁻³) aluminum: solid red line, NPS, dotted black line IPS models; short-dashed blue line Rightley, Baalrud model;⁸⁸ long-dashed green line, LS model;⁹⁸ dash-dotted orange line, QFLP model.^99,100

Fig. 8. Electrical conductivity as a function of temperature in solid-density (ρ = 2.7 g·cm⁻³) aluminum at different temperatures. The results from the NPS model are shown by the solid red line, those from the IPS model by the dotted black line, those from the Shaffer and Starrett (SS) model by the dot-dashed orange line,¹⁰¹ those from the Lee–More model by the dot-dashed purple line,¹⁰² and those from the LS model by the dashed green line, while the QMD results of Witte et al.¹⁰³ using the Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof and Heyd–Scuseria–Ernzerhof exchange-correlation functionals are shown by symbols.