A Generalization of the Stillinger-Lovett Sum Rules for the Two-Dimensional Jellium
Abstract
In the equilibrium statistical mechanics of classical Coulomb fluids, the long-range tail of the Coulomb potential gives rise to the Stillinger-Lovett sum rules for the charge correlation functions. For the jellium model of mobile particles of charge immersed in a neutralizing background, the fixing of one of the -charges induces a screening cloud of the charge density whose zeroth and second moments are determined just by the Stillinger-Lovett sum rules. In this paper, we generalize these sum rules to the screening cloud induced around a pointlike guest charge immersed in the bulk interior of the 2D jellium with the coupling constant ( is the inverse temperature), in the whole region of the thermodynamic stability of the guest charge . The derivation is based on a mapping technique of the 2D jellium at the coupling = (even positive integer) onto a discrete 1D anticommuting-field theory; we assume that the final results remain valid for all real values of corresponding to the fluid regime. The generalized sum rules reproduce for arbitrary coupling the standard Z=1 and the trivial Z=0 results. They are also checked in the Debye-H\"uckel limit and at the free-fermion point . The generalized second-moment sum rule provides some exact information about possible sign oscillations of the induced charge density in space.
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@article{arxiv.0705.1416,
title = {A Generalization of the Stillinger-Lovett Sum Rules for the Two-Dimensional Jellium},
author = {L. Samaj},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.1416},
year = {2009}
}
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16 pages