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Theory of the classical electron gasIn a previous paper Cohen and Murphy (1969) used the Meeron resummation (1958) of the Mayer diagrams (1950) to calculate the pair correlation for the classical electron gas in thermal equilibrium. They found that successive terms in the expression for the pair correlation were more and more singular for small interparticle spacing, actually dominating the Debye-Hueckel result for sufficiently small distances. This led to apparent divergence in the higher order contributions to the internal energy. The present paper shows that the apparent anomalies in the Cohen-Murphy results can be removed without further resummation by a more careful treatment of the region of small interparticle spacing. It is shown that there is really no anomalous behavior at short range in any order and all integrals in the expression for the internal energy converge.
Document ID
19790034791
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Guernsey, R. L.
(Maryland, University College Park, Md., United States)
Date Acquired
August 9, 2013
Publication Date
December 1, 1978
Publication Information
Publication: Physics of Fluids
Volume: 21
Subject Category
Plasma Physics
Accession Number
79A18804
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NGL-21-002-005
Distribution Limits
Public
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