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Plasma living in a curved surface at some special temperature

Statistical Mechanics 2020-07-21 v1 Materials Science Classical Physics Plasma Physics

Abstract

The simplest statistical mechanics model of a Coulomb plasma in two spatial dimensions admits an exact analytic solution at some special temperature in several (curved) surfaces. We present in a unifying perspective these solutions for the (non-quantum) plasma, made of point particles carrying an absolute charge ee, in thermal equilibrium at a temperature T=e2/2kBT=e^2/2k_B, with kBk_B Boltzmann's constant, discussing the importance of having an exact solution, the role of the curvature of the surface, and the densities of the plasma.

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@article{arxiv.1904.04066,
  title  = {Plasma living in a curved surface at some special temperature},
  author = {Riccardo Fantoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.04066},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

78 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0806.1075