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Absence of screening in certain lattice gauge and plasma models

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We discuss some Abelian lattice gauge models of the noncompact variety, including models of relativistic and nonrelativistic plasmas. For all these models we show absence of exponential clustering for some observables in some domains in parameter space. We comment on the physical meaning of these results, in particular with respect to Debye screening of static electric charges.

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    Present address: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, Postfach 401212, D-800, München, Germany

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia, 22903, Charlottesville, Virginia

    D. C. Brydges

  2. Department of Physics, Princeton University, 08544, Princeton, New Jersey

    E. Seiler

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Brydges, D.C., Seiler, E. Absence of screening in certain lattice gauge and plasma models. J Stat Phys 42, 405–424 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01127718

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