18 research outputs found
Similarity and contrasts between thermodynamic properties at the critical point of liquid alkali metals and of electron-hole droplets
The recent experimental study by means of time-resolved luminescence
measurements of an electron-hole liquid (EHL) in diamond by Shimano et al.
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 057404] prompts us to compare and contrast critical
temperature T_c and critical density n_c relations in liquid alkali metals with
those in electron-hole liquids. The conclusion drawn is that these systems have
similarities with regard to critical properties. In both cases the critical
temperature is related to the cube root of the critical density. The existence
of this relation is traced to Coulomb interactions and to systematic trends in
the dielectric constant of the electron-hole systems. Finally a brief
comparison between the alkalis and EHLs of the critical values for the
compressibility ratio Z_c is also given
On the Static Dielectric Permittivity for Coulomb System in the Long Wavelength Limit
On the basis of the exact relations the general formula for the static
dielectric permittivity for Coulomb system is found in the region of small wave
vectors. The obtained formula describes the dielectric function of the Coulomb
system in both limits: in the "metallic" state and in the "dielectric" one. On
this basis the determinations of the "apparent" dielectric and the "apparent"
radius of screening are introduced. In the random phase approximation (RPA) the
exact relations for the function dielectric function of the electron gas in the
long-wavelength region of the wave vectors are found for an arbitrary
degeneration of the particles.Comment: 5 pages, no figure