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A modified shoving model is applied to estimate the location of the glass transition in a one-component plasma. The estimated value of the coupling parameter $\Gamma\simeq 570$ at the glass transition is compared with other predictions…
The melting of elemental solids is modelled as a dislocation-mediated transition on a lattice. Statistical mechanics of linear defects is used to obtain a new relation between melting temperature, crystal structure, atomic volume, and shear…
The two-dimensional one-component plasma ---2dOCP--- is a system composed by $n$ mobile particles with charge $q$ over a neutralizing background in a two-dimensional surface. The Boltzmann factor of this system, at temperature $T$, takes…
We investigate the crystallization rate of a one-component plasma (OCP) in the context of classical nucleation theory. From our derivation of the free energy of an arbitrary distribution of solid clusters embedded in a liquid phase, we…
Using field-theoretic methods, we calculate the internal energy for the One-Component Plasma (OCP). We go beyond the recent calculation by Brilliantov [N. Brilliantov, Contrib. Plasma Phys. 38, pg. 489 (1998) / cond-mat/9805358] by…
We study the evolution of ultracold plasmas by measuring the electron temperature. Shortly after plasma formation, competition between heating and cooling mechanisms drives the electron temperature to a value within a narrow range…
Parameters of a dense 10^13-10^14cm^-3) multicomponent gas-metal plasma in the pulsed reflex discharge with a moderate power (W \leq 10 MW) have been studied. The dynamics of the plasma density in time, the mass-element composition of the…
We present analytic fits of classical one--component plasma (OCP) internal energy over a wide range of coupling parameter $0.01\le\Gamma\le 170$ using Monte--Carlo data in the thermodynamic limit. We extend the dataset obtained in [Demyanov…
In this paper we discuss the results of some Molecular Dynamics simulations of a magnetized One Component Plasma, targeted to estimate the diffusion coefficient $D_{\perp}$ in the plane orthogonal to the magnetic field lines. We find that…
In a two-dimensional two-component plasma, the second moment of the number density correlation function has the simple value $\{12 \pi [1-(\Gamma/4)]^2\}^{-1}$, where $\Gamma$ is the dimensionless coupling constant. This result is derived…
The classical two-dimensional one-component plasma is an exactly solvable model, at some special temperature, even when the one-body potential acting on the particles has a quadrupolar term. As a supplement to a recent work of Di Francesco,…
An accurate equation of state of the one component plasma is obtained in the low coupling regime $0 \leq \Gamma \leq 1$. The accuracy results from a smooth combination of the well-known hypernetted chain integral equation, Monte Carlo…
We study the classical two-dimensional one-component plasma of $N$ positively charged point particles, interacting via the Coulomb potential and confined by an external potential. For the specific inverse temperature $\beta=1$ (in our…
In a two-dimensional two-component plasma, the second moment of the density correlation function has the simple value {12 pi [1-(gamma/4)]^2}^{-1}, where gamma is the dimensionless coupling constant. This result is derived by using…
The two-dimensional one-component plasma, i.e. the system of point-like charged particles embedded in a homogeneous neutralizing background, is studied on the surface of a cylinder of finite circumference, or equivalently in a semiperiodic…
An exact solution is given for a two-dimensional model of a Coulomb gas, more general than the previously solved ones. The system is made of a uniformly charged background, positive particles, and negative particles, on the surface of a…
Classical Molecular Dynamics simulations (MD) for a one-component weakly degenerate plasma are presented. Using an effective quantum pair potential (Kelbg potential), the dynamic structure factor and the dispersion of Langmuir waves are…
We study the classical non-relativistic two-dimensional one-component plasma at Coulomb coupling Gamma=2 on the Riemannian surface known as Flamm's paraboloid which is obtained from the spatial part of the Schwarzschild metric. At this…
The configurational and melting properties of large two-dimensional clusters of charged classical particles interacting with each other via the Coulomb potential are investigated through the Monte Carlo simulation technique. The particles…
Classical Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations for a one-component plasma (OCP) are presented. Quantum effects are included in the form of the Kelbg potential. Results for the dynamical structure factor are compared with the Vlasov and RPA…