Surface correlations in a quantum mechanical one-component plasma

The time-dependent pair correlation function of a quantum mechanical onecomponent plasma bounded by a plane hard wall is studied near that wall. Along the wall, this function has an algebraic asymptotic form: it decays only as the inverse cube (square) of the distance for a three (two)-dimensional system (the case of fermions at zero temperature is excluded from the present study). The amplitude of the asymptotic form obeys a universal sum rule. Similar results hold at the plane interface between two different one-component plasmas.This laboratory is associated with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique