Kosterlitz-Thouless and Manning Condensation
Soft Condensed Matter
2015-06-25 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
A comparison between the Kosterlitz-Thouless theory of metal insulator transition in a two dimensional plasma and a counterion condensation in a polyelectrolyte solution is made. It is demonstrated that, unlike some of the recent suggestions, the counterion condensation and the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition are distinct.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9802154,
title = {Kosterlitz-Thouless and Manning Condensation},
author = {Yan Levin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9802154},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
3 pages, uses multicol.sty, accepted to Physica A