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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics Année : 2020

Screened activity expansion for the grand-potential of a quantum plasma and how to derive approximate equations of state compatible with electroneutrality

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We consider a quantum multi-component plasma made with S species of point charged particles interacting via the Coulomb potential. We derive the screened activity series for the pressure in the grand-canonical ensemble within the Feynman-Kac path integral representation of the system in terms of a classical gas of loops. This series is useful for computing equations of state for it is non-perturbative with respect to the strength of the interaction and it involves relatively few diagrams at a given order. The known screened activity series for the particle densities can be recovered by differentiation. The particle densities satisfy local charge neutrality thanks to a Debye-screening dressing mechanism of the diagrams in these series. We introduce a new general neutralization prescription, based on this mechanism, for deriving approximate equations of state where consistency with electroneutrality is automatically ensured. This prescription is compared to other ones, including a neutralization scheme inspired by the Lieb-Lebowitz theorem and based on the introduction of (S − 1) suitable independent combinations of the activities. Eventually, we briefly argue how the activity series for the pressure, combined with the Debye-dressing prescription, can be used for deriving approximate equations of state at moderate densities, which include the contributions of recombined entities made with three or more particles.

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hal-02637957 , version 1 (13-12-2019)
hal-02637957 , version 2 (28-05-2020)

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A. Alastuey, V. Ballenegger, D. Wendland. Screened activity expansion for the grand-potential of a quantum plasma and how to derive approximate equations of state compatible with electroneutrality. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2020, 102, pp.023203. ⟨hal-02637957v2⟩
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