Expanded Vandermonde powers and sum rules for the two-dimensional one-component plasma (Q1937070): Difference between revisions

``The two-dimensional one-component plasma (2dOCP) is a system of \(N\) mobile particles of the same charge \(q\) on a surface with a neutralizing background. The Boltzmann factor of the 2dOCP at temperature \(T\) can be expressed as a Vandermonde determinant to the power \(\Gamma=q^2/(k_BT)\). Recent advances in the theory of symmetric and anti-symmetric Jack polynomials provide an efficient way to expand this power of the Vandermonde in their monomial basis, allowing the computation of several thermodynamic and structural properties of the 2dOCP for \(N\)-values up to 14 and \(\Gamma\) equal to 4, 6, and 8.'' (abstract, \(k_B\) - Boltzmann constant) In the present work, two applications of this formalism are explored, the study of the pair correlation function of the 2dOCP on a sphere (and its spatial moments) as well as the moments of the density for a soft disk geometry. Studying the pair correlation function on a sphere, the authors show that the second moment satisfies an exact relation for a finite number \(N\) of particles. This relation may be presented as expansion in inverse powers of \(N\). Consequently, for \(\Gamma=4\) stable numerical calculations for moments up to the 8th order are possible. For \(\Gamma=4\) and \(6\) and finite \(N\) in spherical geometry, for the 4th and 6th moments an approximation is obtained based on the consideration of the direct correlation function (defined by the Ornstein-Zernike equation). In case of the 4th moment, a reasonable accuracy of the approximation is shown. The analysis of the moments of the density for a soft disk geometry are based on the evaluation of the distribution function within the frame of linear statistics. At \(N\rightarrow\infty\), the exact distribution tends to a Gaussian one, and the mean of the linear statistics is the 2nd density moment. It is shown that O(1)-corrections to the mean for any general smooth radial linear statistics may be found.