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Thermodynamics of Yukawa fluids near the one-component-plasma limit

Plasma Physics 2015-12-17 v1 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

Thermodynamics of weakly screened (near the one-component-plasma limit) Yukawa fluids in two and three dimensions is analyzed in detail. It is shown that the thermal component of the excess internal energy of these fluids, when expressed in terms of the properly normalized coupling strength, exhibits the scaling pertinent to the corresponding one-component-plasma limit (the scalings differ considerably between the two- and three-dimensional situations). This provides us with a simple and accurate practical tool to estimate thermodynamic properties of weakly screened Yukawa fluids. Particular attention is paid to the two-dimensional fluids, for which several important thermodynamic quantities are calculated to illustrate the application of the approach.

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@article{arxiv.1507.00659,
  title  = {Thermodynamics of Yukawa fluids near the one-component-plasma limit},
  author = {Sergey A. Khrapak and Igor L. Semenov and Lenaic Couedel and Hubertus M. Thomas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.00659},
  year   = {2015}
}

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