Translation symmetry breaking in the one-component plasma on the cylinder

DOI10.1023/B:JOSS.0000044066.98352.12zbMATH Open1206.82101arXivcond-mat/0407346OpenAlexW3100537646MaRDI QIDQ2507523FDOQ2507523

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 11 October 2006

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

Abstract: The two-dimensional one-component plasma, i.e. the system of point-like charged particles embedded in a homogeneous neutralizing background, is studied on the surface of a cylinder of finite circumference, or equivalently in a semiperiodic strip of finite width. The model has been solved exactly by Choquard et al. at the free-fermion coupling $Gamma=2$: in the thermodynamic limit of an infinitely long strip, the particle density turns out to be a nonconstant periodic function in space and the system exhibits long-range order of the Wigner-crystal type. The aim of this paper is to describe, qualitatively as well as quantitatively, the crystalline state for a larger set of couplings $Gamma=2gamma$ ($gamma=1,2,\mathrm{...}$ a positive integer) when the plasma is mappable onto a one-dimensional fermionic theory. The fermionic formalism, supplemented by some periodicity assumptions, reveals that the density profile results from a hierarchy of Gaussians with a uniform variance but with different amplitudes. The number and spatial positions of these Gaussians within an elementary cell depend on the particular value of $gamma$. Analytic results are supported by the exact solution at $gamma=1$ ($Gamma=2$) and by exact finite-size calculations at $gamma=2,3$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0407346

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zbMATH Keywords

semiperiodic boundary conditionstranslation symmetry breakingTwo-dimensional jellium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

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