Phase Transition in a Self--Gravitating Planar Gas
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v2 Condensed Matter
Abstract
We consider a gas of Newtonian self-gravitating particles in two-dimensional space, finding a phase transition, with a high temperature homogeneous phase and a low temperature clumped one. We argue that the system is described in terms of a gas with fractal behaviour.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9803161,
title = {Phase Transition in a Self--Gravitating Planar Gas},
author = {Elcio Abdalla and M. Reza Rahimi Tabar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9803161},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
corrections made and discussions enlarged; to appear P.L.B