  A new approach to simulating warm and hot dense matter that combines density
functional theory based calculations of the electronic structure to classical
molecular dynamics simulations with pair interaction potentials is presented.
The new method, which we call pseudoatom molecular dynamics (PAMD), can be
applied to single or multi-component plasmas. It gives equation of state and
self-diffusion coefficients with an accuracy comparable to ab-initio
simulations but is computationally much more efficient.
