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arXiv:hep-th/9310106 · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics

Improved calculation of the third virial coefficient of a free anyon gas

J. Law, Avinash Khare, R. K. Bhaduri, Akira Suzuki

Published Feb 1, 1994• 4 citations

Abstract

For three anyons confined in a harmonic oscillator, only the class of states that interpolates nonlinearly with the statistical parameter contributes to the third virial coefficient of a free anyon gas. Rather than evaluating the full three-body partition function as was done in an earlier publication [J. Law, A. Suzuki, and R. Bhaduri, Phys. Rev. A 46, 4693 (1992)], here only the nonlinear contribution is calculated, thus avoiding delicate cancellations between the irrelevant linear part and the two-body partition function. Our numerical results are consistent with the simple analytical form suggested recently by Myrheim and Olaussen [Phys. Lett. B 299, 267 (1993)].

DOI: 10.1103/physreve.49.1753

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-

{\mathbf{r}}_{2}

\ensuremath{\Vert}), where

{\mathit{r}}^{2}

U(r)\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0 as r\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0. Expanding the second virial coefficient in the vicinity of the Bose point, we show that the nonanalyticity is still present and independent of the particular form of U. Furthermore, we calculate explicitly, the second virial coefficient in the case of a short-range interaction.

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{\mathit{A}}_{3}

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