Laboratory plasma production almost always preferentially heats either the ions or electrons, leading to a two-temperature state. In this state, density functional theory molecular dynamic simulation is the state of the art for modeling bulk material properties. We construct a statistical mechanics model for the two-temperature limit that is theoretically consistent with the molecular dynamics method. We proceed to derive the electron-ion multitemperature quantum Ornstein-Zernike equations for the first time. This allows the construction of a two-temperature, two-component plasma model using the average atom from which we can compute bulk material properties at a fraction of the computation time of the two-temperature density functional theory simulation. The accuracy of the model is benchmarked against ion pair correlation and self-diffusion results from ab initio simulation. We proceed to compute the viscosity and ion thermal conductivity as a function of both ion and electron temperature.

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• Classical statistical mechanics
• Diffusion
• High-energy-density plasmas
• Ionic transport
• Nonequilibrium & irreversible thermodynamics
• Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
• Plasma thermodynamics
• Thermal conductivity of fluids
• Transport phenomena
• Warm-dense matter
• Viscosity
• Ab initio molecular dynamics
• Density functional theory
• Molecular dynamics