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On the dielectric susceptibility of classical Coulomb systems

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This paper reports exact and numerical results on the shape dependence of the dielectric susceptibility of the one-component plasma (O.C.P.) in two dimensions. Some apparently conflicting predictions of phenomenological electrostatics and statistical mechanics are resolved. We prove indeed that, for a disk shaped two-dimensional one-component plasma at the particular temperatureT 0 =q 2 (2K B )−1, the Clausius-Mossotti relation is exactly fulfilled. It yields a value of the susceptibility which is twice that given by the second moment Stillinger-Lovett sum rule. Similar results are reported for the strip geometry. These discrepancies are explained in terms of shape dependent versus shape independent thermodynamic limits. We report also exact and numerical results on the size dependence of the dielectric susceptibility of the systems quoted above.

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Choquard, P., Piller, B. & Rentsch, R. On the dielectric susceptibility of classical Coulomb systems. J Stat Phys 43, 197–205 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01010577

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