Second virial coefficient for the Landau diamagnetism of a two component plasma
Plasma Physics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
This paper investigates the density expansion of the thermodynamic properties of a two component plasma under the influence of a weak constant uniform magnetic field. We start with the fugacity expansion for the Helmholtz free energy. The leading terms with respect to the density are calculated by a perturbation expansion with respect to the magnetic field. We find a new magnetic virial function for a low density plasma which is exact in quadratic order with respect to the magnetic field. Using these results we compute the magnetization and the magnetic susceptibility.
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@article{arxiv.physics/9911014,
title = {Second virial coefficient for the Landau diamagnetism of a two component plasma},
author = {M. Steinberg and W. Ebeling and J. Ortner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9911014},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
16 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys.Rev.E