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I give a brief review of particle and charge fluctuations in multicomponent systems. The long range nature of the Coulomb forces greatly reduce the fluctuations of the net charge Q A in a domain Λ⊂ℝd. In particular, while the variance of particle numbers in A grows like the volume, (Q A 2) grows only like the surface area of A.
Dedicated to the Memory of E. P. Gross
Research supported in part by AFOSR Grant 95-0159 and NSF Grant 95-23266
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Lebowitz, J.L. (2002). Fluctuations in Multicomponent Systems. In: Kalman, G.J., Rommel, J.M., Blagoev, K. (eds) Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47086-1_13
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