2006/05/19 by Boris A. Gelman, Edward Shuryak, Edward V. Shuryak +2 · 3 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Condensed matter physics #Debye #Debye function #Debye length #Equation of state #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Limit (mathematics) #Material Dynamics and Properties #Nonlinear system #Phase transition #Physics #Plasma #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Quark #Quark–gluon plasma #Virial coefficient #Virial expansion #Virial theorem #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.74.044909
published as Phys.Rev.C74:044909,2006 · 9 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2006/05/19 · openalex publication_date 2006/10/31 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We analyze the screening and bulk energy of a classical and strongly interacting plasma of color charges, a model we recently introduced for the description of a quark-gluon plasma at T=(1\ensuremath-3)Tc. The partition function is organized around the Debye-H"uckel limit. The linear Debye-H"uckel limit is corrected by a virial expansion. For the pressure, the expansion is badly convergent even in the dilute limit. The nonlinear Debye-H"uckel theory is studied numerically as an alternative for moderately strong plasmas. We use the Debye theory of solid to extend the analysis to the crystal phase at very strong coupling. The analytical results for the bulk energy per particle compare well with the numerical results from molecular dynamics simulations for all couplings.