The variational formulation of liquid-metal perturbation theory is generalized to include electronic excitation of the conduction and core electrons. The theory allows calculation of thermodynamic properties for all states from the normal liquid metal to the ionized dense plasma. Theoretical results are compared to experimental shock-compression data and to calculations made by using strongly coupled plasma theory.
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Marvin Ross (1980) studied this question.