Density Profiles in a Classical Coulomb Fluid Near a Dielectric Wall. II. Weak-Coupling Systematic Expansions

In the framework of the grand-canonical ensemble of statistical mechanics, we give an exact diagrammatic representation of the density profiles in a classical multicomponent plasma near a dielectric wall. By a reorganization of Mayer diagrams for the fugacity expansions of the densities, we exhibit how the long-range of both the self-energy and pair interaction are exponentially screened at large distances from the wall. However, the self-energy due to Coulomb interaction with images still diverges in the vicinity of the dielectric wall and the variation of the density is drastically different at short or large distances from the wall. This variation is involved in the inhomogeneous Debye–Hückel equation obeyed by the screened pair potential. Then the main difficulty lies in the determination of the latter potential at every distance. We solve this problem by devising a systematic expansion with respect to the ratio of the fundamental length scales involved in the two coulombic effects at stake. (The application of this method to a plasma confined between two ideally conducting plates and to a quantum plasma will be presented elsewhere). As a result we derive the exact analytical perturbative expressions for the density profiles up to first order in the coupling between charges. The mean-field approach displayed in Paper I is then justified.     

Density Profiles in a Quantum Coulomb Fluid Near a Hard Wall

Journal of Statistical Physics - Equilibrium particle densities near a hard wall are studied for a quantum fluid made of point charges which interact via Coulomb potential without any...     

Classical and Quantum Algebraic Screening in a Coulomb Plasma near a Wall: A Solvable Model

The static position correlation in a quantum Coulomb plasma near a wall is studied by means of a model where two quantum charges are embedded in a classical plasma at equilibrium. Three kinds of walls are considered: a wall without electrostatic properties, a dielectric, and an ideal conductor. At large separations y along the wall, the correlation exactly decays as 1/y ³, though no algebraic tail exists for classical charges near an ideal conductor. This tail originates from thermal statistical and purely quantum fluctuations of polarization clouds which are deformed by the geometric constraint due to the wall and by the charges induced by influence inside a wall with electrical properties. The coefficient of the 1/y ³ tail can be calculated explicitly in a weak-coupling and low-delocalization regime. Then classical, diffraction, and purely quantum contributions are disentangled.     

界面附近光剥离过程中的量子经典对应

研究了氢负离子在弹性墙附近的光剥离过程，导出了剥离截面的解析公式。此截面为光滑背景项与一正弦振荡项之和，后者与离子与弹性墙的距离有关。分析了光剥离电离的经典动力学及其量子对应。在本模型中，半经典光剥离截面与量子结果一致。     

Classical Coulomb systems near a plane wall. II

The equilibrium structure of classical Coulomb systems bounded by a plane hard wall is studied near that wall. A general sum rule is derived for the asymptotic form of the charge-charge correlation function along the wall. The exact results which can be obtained for the two-dimensional one-component plasma provide a test for this new sum rule, as well as for other already known sum rules or their generalizations.This laboratory is associated with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.     

Classical Coulomb fluids in a confined geometry

It has already been argued that a classical (three-dimensional) Coulomb fluid confined between two parallel walls exhibits ideal gas features when the distance between the walls becomes small; this is confirmed in the present paper. Two-dimensional models of Coulomb fluids (with a logarithmic interaction), confined in a strip, are also studied. These models do not become ideal gases in the narrow strip limit. The correlation functions are also studied. There is a special temperature at which exact results are obtained. At that temperature, the two-dimensional, two-component plasma (two-dimensional Coulomb gas), which is a conductor when unconfined, becomes a dielectric as soon as it is confined in a strip of noninfinite width. This can be understood as a displacement of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition by the confinement.     

Pressure and Maxwell Tensor in a Coulomb Fluid

The pressure in a classical Coulomb fluid at equilibrium is obtained from the Maxwell tensor at some point inside the fluid, by a suitable statistical average. For fluids in a Euclidean space, this is a fresh look at known results. But for fluids in a curved space, a case which is of some interest, these unambiguous results from the Maxwell tensor approach have not been obtained by other methods.     

Classical Description of Two-Cluster Transfer Reactions in a Coulomb Field

The theory of two-cluster transfer reactions is reconsidered on the basis of a simple semiclassical approximation. The obtained expression for the differential cross section is in a closed form so as to be easily calculated. A theoretical study with calculations for the angular distribution for different incoming and outgoing energies, and also for different angular momentum transfer is introduced. Comparing our theoretical calculations with experimental data, satisfactory agreement is obtained especially in the backward direction.     

Two-Dimensional Coulomb Systems in a Disk with Ideal Dielectric Boundaries

We study two-dimensional Coulomb systems confined in a disk with ideal dielectric boundaries. In particular we consider the two-component plasma in detail. When the coulombic coupling constant =2 the model is exactly solvable. We compute the grand potential, densities and correlations. We show that the grand potential has a universal logarithmic finite-size correction as predicted in previous works. This logarithmic finite-size correction is also found in the free energy of another solvable model: the one-component plasma.     

Sine-Gordon Theory for the Equation of State of Classical Hard-Core Coulomb Systems. I. Low Fugacity Expansion

We present an exact field theoretical representation of the statistical mechanics of classical hard-core Coulomb systems. This approach generalizes the usual sine-Gordon theory valid for point-like charges or lattice systems to continuous Coulomb fluids with additional short-range interactions. This formalism is applied to derive the equation of state of the restricted primitive model of electrolytes in the low fugacity regime up to order ρ^5/2 (ρ number density). We recover the results obtained by Haga by means of Mayer graphs expansions.     

Classical dynamics near the triple collision in a three-body Coulomb problem

We investigate the classical motion of three charged particles with both attractive and repulsive interactions. The triple collision is a main source of chaos in such three-body Coulomb problems. By employing the McGehee scaling technique, we analyze here for the first time in detail the three-body dynamics near the triple collision in 3 degrees of freedom. We reveal surprisingly simple dynamical patterns in large parts of the chaotic phase space. The underlying degree of order in the form of approximate Markov partitions may help in understanding the global structures observed in quantum spectra of two-electron atoms.     

Classical Behavior After a Phase Transition: I. Classical Order Parameters

We analyze the onset of classical field configurations after a phase transition. Firstly, we motivate the problem by means of a toy model in quantum mechanics. Subsequently, we consider a scalar field theory in which the system-field interacts with its environment, represented both by further scalar fields and by its own short-wavelength modes. We show that for very rapid quenches, the order parameter can be treated classically by the time taken for it to achieve its ground state values (spinodal time).     

Classical coulomb systems near a plane wall. I

The equilibrium structure of classical Coulomb systems bounded by a plane wall is studied near that wall. Several models are considered: the two-dimensional one-component plasma at a special value of the coupling constant (which makes the model exactly soluble), the two-dimensional and three-dimensional one-component and two-component plasmas in the weak-coupling limit (a Debye-Hückel type of approach is then used). Along a wall, the pair correlation functions decay only as an inverse power of the distancer, namely, asr ^–v for av-dimensional system (v=2,3). The one-body densities are also studied; the first BGY equation is used.     

Mean Length of Finite Clusters in Directed Compact Percolation Near a Damp Wall

The mean length of finite clusters is derived exactly for the case of directed compact percolation near a damp wall. We find that the result involves elliptic integrals and exhibits similar critical behaviour to the dry wall case.     

New Form for the Coulomb Potential in Complex Crystals. Part I

The Coulomb potential is constructed for a crystal with a basis by the method of the Green's functions approximated by the lattice sum of spherically symmetric electron densities of free atoms. The application of the new method with improved convergence of the lattice series in the Green's function has allowed us to obtain an additional term in the electron part of the potential, which describes attraction and can be considered as a potential of the Coulomb hole. The method was applied to calculate the potentials for carbon in the diamond lattice and for TiC solid solution in the direction of four nearest neighbors. Some typical results are presented to illustrate the capabilities of the method.     

Coulomb Scattering in the Massless Nelson Model I. Foundations of Two-Electron Scattering

We construct two-electron scattering states and verify their tensor product structure in the infrared-regular massless Nelson model. The proof follows the lines of Haag-Ruelle scattering theory: Scattering state approximants are defined with the help of two time-dependent renormalized creation operators of the electrons acting on the vacuum. They depend on the ground state wave functions of the (single-electron) fiber Hamiltonians with infrared cut-off. The convergence of these approximants as t→∞ is shown with the help of Cook’s method combined with a non-stationary phase argument. The removal of the infrared cut-off in the limit t→∞ requires sharp estimates on the derivatives of these ground state wave functions w.r.t. electron and photon momenta, with mild dependence on the infrared cut-off. These key estimates, which carry information about the localization of the electrons in space, are obtained in a companion paper with the help of iterative analytic perturbation theory. Our results hold in the weak coupling regime.     

Charge Correlations in a Coulomb System Along a Plane Wall: A Relation Between Asymptotic Behavior and Dipole Moment

Classical Coulomb systems at equilibrium, bounded by a plane dielectric wall, are studied. A general two-point charge correlation function is considered. Valid for any fixed position of one of the points, a new relation is found between the algebraic tail of the correlation function along the wall and the dipole moment of that function. The relation is tested first in the weak-coupling (Debye–Hückel) limit, and afterwards, for the special case of a plain hard wall, on the exactly solvable two-dimensional two-component plasma at coupling =2, and on the two-dimensional one-component plasma at an arbitrary even integer .