Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2009-06-30
J. Stat. Phys. 137 (2009) 1-17
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
19 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
10.1007/s10955-009-9845-7
This paper concerns the equilibrium bulk charge and current density correlation functions in quantum media, conductors and dielectrics, fully coupled to the radiation (the retarded regime). A sequence of static and time-dependent sum rules, which fix the values of certain moments of the charge and current density correlation functions, is obtained by using Rytov's fluctuational electrodynamics. A technique is developed to extract the classical and purely quantum-mechanical parts of these sum rules. The sum rules are critically tested in the classical limit and on the jellium model. A comparison is made with microscopic approaches to systems of particles interacting through Coulomb forces only (the non-retarded regime). In contrast with microscopic results, the current-current correlation function is found to be integrable in space, in both classical and quantum regimes.
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