Statics and Thermodynamics of Strongly Coupled Multicomponent Plasmas

A description of strongly coupled plasmas, in which the direct correlation functions, cᵢⱼ(r), are obtained by simple scaling from a universal function, is derived and found to be in full agreement with available computer simulation data, which it thus extends for arbitrary mixtures. It is thermodynamically consistent with the "ion-sphere" charge-averaging prediction for the enhancement factors for nuclear reaction rates, the results for which confirm the universality of the bridge functions for mixtures.