A trickiness of the high-temperature limit for number density correlation functions in classical Coulomb fluids

DOI10.1007/S10955-007-9337-6zbMATH Open1187.82008arXiv0705.1406OpenAlexW1966050690MaRDI QIDQ2385204FDOQ2385204

Authors: Ladislav Šamaj 

Publication date: 11 October 2007

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Debye-H"uckel theory describes rigorously the thermal equilibrium of classical Coulomb fluids in the high-temperature $$ regime ($$ denotes the inverse temperature). It is generally believed that the Debye-H"uckel theory and the systematic high-temperature expansion provide an adequate description also in the region of small {em strictly positive} values of $$. This hypothesis is tested in the present paper on a two-dimensional Coulomb gas of pointlike $+/-$ unit charges interacting via a logarithmic potential which is equivalent to an integrable sine-Gordon field model. In particular, we apply a form factor method to obtain the exact asymptotic large-distance behavior of particle correlation functions, considered in the charge and number density combinations. We first determine the general forms of the leading and subleading asymptotic terms at strictly positive $$ and then evaluate their high-temperature $$ forms. In the case of the {em charge} correlation function, the leading asymptotic term at a strictly positive $$ is also the leading one in the high-temperature $$ regime. On the contrary, the $$ behavior of the {em number density} correlation function is accompanied by an interference between the first two asymptotic terms. Consequently, the large-distance behavior of this function exhibits a discontinuity when going from strictly positive values of $$ to the Debye-H"uckel limit $$. This is the crucial conclusion of the paper: the large-distance asymptotics and the high-temperature limit do not commute for the density correlation function of the two-dimensional Coulomb gas.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1406

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zbMATH Keywords

integrabilityform factorsine-Gordon modelCoulomb systemsparticle correlationslogarithmic interaction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

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