VIRIAL EXPANSION OF THE EQUATION OF STATE OF A QUANTUM PLASMA

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ALASTUEY, A
PEREZ, A
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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS | 1992年 / 20卷 / 01期
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10.1209/0295-5075/20/1/004
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We derive a systematic density expansion of the equation of state for a quantum Coulomb fluid. Our formalism is based on the Feynman-Kac path integral representation, and allows a coherent and simultaneous treatment of screening, diffraction, bound states and statistics. The calculations have been explicitly carried out up to the order rho-5/2 in the density rho. At the order rho-2, we retrieve the results obtained via an effective-potential method.
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