Molecular dynamics simulations of strongly coupled plasmas

Computer simulation methods represent a complementary approach to experimental and theoretical studies, and they have become invaluable tools for the description of many-particle systems in numerous disciplines of science. One of the main and widely applied approaches is the molecular dynamics simulation, which makes it possible to trace the phase-space trajectories of particles thereby providing information about the time evolution of the systems investigated. From the phase-space coordinates of the particles, it is possible to derive static, thermodynamic as well as transport properties and to obtain information about the collective excitations.