A Generalization of the Stillinger-Lovett Sum Rules for the Two-Dimensional Jellium

TL;DR

This paper extends the Stillinger-Lovett sum rules for charge correlations in 2D jellium to include a guest charge of arbitrary magnitude, using a mapping technique, and verifies the results across different coupling regimes.

Contribution

It generalizes the Stillinger-Lovett sum rules for the 2D jellium to arbitrary guest charge magnitudes using a novel mapping technique, valid for all coupling constants within the stability region.

Findings

Sum rules are valid for all coupling constants in the fluid regime.

Results recover known cases for Z=1 and Z=0.

Provides insights into charge density oscillations.

Abstract

In the equilibrium statistical mechanics of classical Coulomb fluids, the long-range tail of the Coulomb potential gives rise to the Stillinger-Lovett sum rules for the charge correlation functions. For the jellium model of mobile particles of charge $q$ immersed in a neutralizing background, the fixing of one of the $q$-charges induces a screening cloud of the charge density whose zeroth and second moments are determined just by the Stillinger-Lovett sum rules. In this paper, we generalize these sum rules to the screening cloud induced around a pointlike guest charge $Z q$ immersed in the bulk interior of the 2D jellium with the coupling constant $\Gamma=\beta q^2$ ($\beta$ is the inverse temperature), in the whole region of the thermodynamic stability of the guest charge $Z>-2/\Gamma$. The derivation is based on a mapping technique of the 2D jellium at the coupling $\Gamma$ = (even positive integer) onto a discrete 1D anticommuting-field theory; we assume that the final results remain valid for all real values of $\Gamma$ corresponding to the fluid regime. The generalized sum rules reproduce for arbitrary coupling $\Gamma$ the standard Z=1 and the trivial Z=0 results. They are also checked in the Debye-H\"uckel limit $\Gamma\to 0$ and at the free-fermion point $\Gamma=2$. The generalized second-moment sum rule provides some exact information about possible sign oscillations of the induced charge density in space.