Universality in some classical Coulomb systems of restricted dimension.

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Abstract: Coulomb systems in which the particles interact through the d-dimensional Coulomb potential but are confined in a flat manifold of dimension d−1 are considered. The Coulomb potential is defined with some boundary condition involving a characteristic macroscopic distance W in the direction perpendicular to the manifold~: either it is periodic of period W in that direction, or it vanishes on one ideal conductor wall parallel to the manifold at a distance W from it, or it vanishes on two parallel walls at a distance W from each other with the manifold equidistant from them. Under the assumptions that classical equilibrium statistical mechanics is applicable and that the system has the macroscopic properties of a conductor, it is shown that the suitably smoothed charge correlation function is universal, and that the free energy and the grand potential have universal dependences on W (universal means independent of the microscopic detail). The cases d=2 are discussed in detail, and the generic results are checked on an exactly solvable model. The case d=3 of a plane parallel to an ideal conductor is also explicitly worked out.












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