Renormalization of a hard-core guest charge immersed in a two-dimensional electrolyte

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Abstract: This paper is a continuation of a previous one [L. {v{S}}amaj, {it J. Stat. Phys.} {�f 120}:125 (2005)] dealing with the renormalization of a guest charge immersed in a two-dimensional logarithmic Coulomb gas of pointlike pm unit charges, the latter system being in the stability-against-collapse regime of reduced inverse temperatures . In the previous work, using a sine-Gordon representation of the Coulomb gas, an exact renormalized-charge formula was derived for the special case of the {em pointlike} guest charge Q, in its stability regime . In the present paper, we extend the renormalized-charge treatment to the guest charge with a hard core of radius sigma, which allows us to go beyond the stability border . In the limit of the hard-core radius much smaller than the correlation length of the Coulomb-gas species and at a strictly finite temperature, due to the counterion condensation in the extended region , the renormalized charge Qmren turns out to be a periodic function of the bare charge Q with period 1. The renormalized charge therefore does not saturate at a specific finite value as |Q|oinfty, but oscillates between two extreme values. In the high-temperature Poisson-Boltzmann scaling regime of limits and Qoinfty with the product being finite, one reproduces correctly the monotonic dependence of on in the guest-charge stability region and the Manning-Oosawa type of counterion condensation with the uniform saturation of at the value 4/pi in the region .









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