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Quantum Statistics of Dilute Plasmas

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The development of a systematic statistical theory for systems with Coulomb interactions is related to characteristic problems:

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    Debye’s screening problem,

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    Wigner’s problem of lattice formation,

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    Herzfeld’s bound state problem.

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Ebeling, W., Pöschel, T. (2019). Quantum Statistics of Dilute Plasmas. In: Lectures on Quantum Statistics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 953. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05734-3_6

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