Fluctuations in the two-dimensional one-component plasma and associated fourth-order phase transition

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVE.91.060105arXiv1502.06756WikidataQ50883388 ScholiaQ50883388MaRDI QIDQ6259355FDOQ6259355

Authors: Fabio Deelan Cunden, Anna Maltsev, F. Mezzadri 

Publication date: 24 February 2015

Abstract: We study the distribution of the mean radial displacement of charges of a 2D one-component plasma in the thermodynamic limit $Noinfty$ at finite temperature $$. We compute explicitly the large deviation functions showing the emergence of a fourth-order phase transition as a consequence of a change of topology in the plasma distribution. This weak phase transition occurs exactly at the ground state of the plasma. These results have been compared with the integrable case (finite $N$) of plasma parameter $$. In this case the problem can be mapped to the stationary properties of 2D Dyson Brownian particles and to a non-Hermitian matrix model.

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