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A Generalization of the Stillinger-Lovett Sum Rules for the Two-Dimensional Jellium

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-13 v1

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 qq immersed in a neutralizing background, the fixing of one of the qq-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 ZqZ q immersed in the bulk interior of the 2D jellium with the coupling constant Γ=βq2\Gamma=\beta q^2 (β\beta is the inverse temperature), in the whole region of the thermodynamic stability of the guest charge Z>2/ΓZ>-2/\Gamma. The derivation is based on a mapping technique of the 2D jellium at the coupling Γ\Gamma = (even positive integer) onto a discrete 1D anticommuting-field theory; we assume that the final results remain valid for all real values of Γ\Gamma corresponding to the fluid regime. The generalized sum rules reproduce for arbitrary coupling Γ\Gamma the standard Z=1 and the trivial Z=0 results. They are also checked in the Debye-H\"uckel limit Γ0\Gamma\to 0 and at the free-fermion point Γ=2\Gamma=2. 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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