Dielectric Response Function of Electron Liquids. III Numerical Investigation of Static Properties
Dielectric Response Function of Electron Liquids. III Numerical Investigation of Static Properties
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电子液体的介电响应函数。
DOI:
10.1143/ptp.52.42
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发表时间:
1974
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通讯作者:
S. Ichimaru
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作者:
H. Totsuji;S. Ichimaru
Numerical investigations of the static properties of the electron liquid· are ·carried out on the basis of the dielectric response function derived by one of the authors. The static form factor is computed over the thermodynamically stable domain of the plasma parameter, E:o;lO. The correlation energy thus obtained is in good agreement with the numerical experiment carried out by Brush, Sahlin and Teller; the short-range behavior of the corre lation is much improved over the existing theories. The compressibility sum rule is well satisfied up to E~10 so that the critical plasma paramet~r for the onset of a thermodynamic instability is determined to be in the range, 9.2sE.sl0.9. The nature of such an instability is clarified with the aid of the fluctuation analysis of the positive-charge background; a critical fluctuation of Ornstein-Zernike type is thus predicted. For the electron liquid with E>Ec, a possibility of separation into two phases is pointed out. § 1. lntroduction In a previous paper/l hereafter referred to as I, one of the authors of the present paper derived a dielectric response function for classical electron liquids, which, combined with the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, led to a self-consistent equation for the static form factor of such a system. Subsequently, in a paper2l referred to as II, we investigated the static properties of the system described by such a self-consistent equation; the analysis was carried out with the aid of an expansion with respect to the plasma parameter e = ( 4nn)i12e8T- 312, where n is the number density of the electrons and T denotes the temperature in energy units. It has thereby been shown that the dielectric response function reproduces · the exact calculations of the thermodynamic properties· up to those terms of the expansion hitherto reported in the literature. Having thus confirmed the validity of the dielectric response function in the domain of small plasma parameters, we now extend the numerical calculations of the thermodynamic properties and the correlati~n functions of the electron liquid into t~e domain where an expansion with respect to e is no longer a useful concept. Here, "we know of no rigorous theoretical guidelines, except for a number of sum rules, by_ which accuracy of the calculations may be examined. Instead, we compare the res:ults of our computations with those "experimental" values of static properties obtained through the Monte Carlo method by Brush, Sahlin and Teller. 3l These two sets of computations exhibit excellent agreement