Published June 6, 2003 | Version v1
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The statistical mechanics of the classical two-dimensional Coulomb gas is exactly solved

Creators

  • 1. Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, SK-842 28 Bratislava (Slovakia)

Description

The model under consideration is a classical 2D Coulomb gas of pointlike positive and negative unit charges, interacting via a logarithmic potential. In the whole stability range of temperatures, the equilibrium statistical mechanics of this fluid model is exactly solvable via an equivalence with the integrable 2D sine-Gordon field theory. The exact solution includes the bulk thermodynamics, special cases of the surface thermodynamics and the large-distance asymptotic behaviour of the two-body correlation functions

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0305-4470/36/5913/a32212.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and General (ISSN 1361-6447) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://stacks.iop.org/0305-4470/36/5913/a32212.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/36/22/312;
PII
S0305-4470(03)54504-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and General
Journal Volume
36
Journal Issue
22
Journal Page Range
p. 5913-5920
ISSN
0305-4470
CODEN
JPHAC5

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
34044175
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Descriptors DEI
CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; COULOMB FIELD; EXACT SOLUTIONS; FLUID MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SINE-GORDON EQUATION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS; TWO-BODY PROBLEM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
Descriptors DEC
ELECTRIC FIELDS; EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; MANY-BODY PROBLEM; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MECHANICS