Two-dimensional one-component plasma on Flamm's paraboloid (Q1012655)

The authors study the classical non-relativistic two-dimensional one-component plasma at Coulomb coupling \(\Gamma\)=2 on the Riemannian surface \(S\) known as Flamm's paraboloid. Flamm's paraboloid naturally arises in general relativity and is obtained from the spatial part of the Schwarzschild metric. At the special value \(\Gamma\)=2, the statistical mechanics of the system is exactly solvable analytically. The Coulomb pair-potential on the surface \(S\) and the particle-background potential are found. The Coulomb potential depends on the boundary conditions imposed. Three different cases are considered, (1) the system occupies the whole surface \(S\), (2) the upper half of the surface \(S\) is available to the particles, and the lower part is empty, with hard-wall boundary conditions between the two regions, (3) the particles live in the upper part of \(S\) and the lower part is an ideal grounded conductor. Two different thermodynamic limits are considered, the one where the radius \(R\) of the disk confining the plasma is allowed to become very big while keeping the surface hole radius \(M\) constant, and the one where \(R\) and \(M\) are considered to approach infinity with the ratio \(R/M\) kept constant. In both limits the Helmholtz free energy has been found. Further, the exact analytical expression for the partition function and the density at \(\Gamma=2\) for the two-dimensional one-component plasma on one half of the surface, on the whole surface, and on the surface with the horizon grounded are determined. The authors think that systems with non-constant curvature should deserve a revisiting of all the common sum rules for charged fluids.