Theoretical description of spherically confined strongly correlated Yukawa plasmas

Details Theoretical description of spherically confined strongly correlated Yukawa plasmas Theoretical description of spherically confined strongly correlated Yukawa plasmas

2011-10-15

arxiv.org/abs/1110.3440v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

9 pages, 10 figures

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A theoretical description of the radial density profile for charged particles with Yukawa interaction in a harmonic trap is described. At strong Coulomb coupling shell structure is observed in both computer simulations and experiments. Correlations responsible for such shell structure are described here using a recently developed model based in density functional theory. A wide range of particle number, Coulomb coupling, and screening lengths is considered within the fluid phase. A hypernetted chain approximation shows the formation of shell structure, but fails to give quantitative agreement with Monte Carlo simulation results at strong coupling. Significantly better agreement is obtained within the hypernetted chain structure using a renormalized coupling constant, representing bridge function corrections.

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