Abstract

Abstract : A unified approach to the theory of correlations in a plasma is presented, based on the BBKGY hierarchy. The theory is applied to a one-component plasma with the Coulomb interaction modified to include effects of the background. Closed integro-differential equations in space and time are obtained for the two-particle correlation function in both the strong and weak coupling limits. In the weak-coupling domain, gamma 1, the time-independent analysis returns the well-known linearized Debye-Huckle result, where gamma is the plasma parameter. In the strong-coupling domain gamma 1, the resulting two-particle total correlation function exhibits decaying oscillatory behavior for particle separation of the order of the effective interparticle range. (Author)

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