Hard rods: statistics of parking configurations

François Dunlop and Thierry Huillet

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2003, vol. 324, issue 3, 698-706

Abstract: We compute the correlation function in the equilibrium version of Rényi's parking problem. The correlation length is found to diverge as 2−1π−2(1−ρ)−2 when ρ↗1 (maximum density) and as π−2(2ρ−1)−2 when ρ↘1/2 (minimum density).

Keywords: Hard rods; Parking; Correlation length (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00065-7

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