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This paper is a continuation of a previous one [L. Šamaj, J. Stat. Phys. 120:125 (2005)] dealing with the renormalization of a guest charge immersed in a two-dimensional logarithmic Coulomb gas of pointlike ± unit charges, the latter system being in the stability-against-collapse regime of reduced inverse temperatures 0 ≤ β < 2. In the previous work, using a sine-Gordon representation of the Coulomb gas, an exact renormalized-charge formula was derived for the special case of the pointlike guest charge Q, in its stability regime β |Q| < 2. In the present paper, we extend the renormalized-charge treatment to the guest charge with a hard core of radius σ, which allows us to go beyond the stability border β|Q| = 2. In the limit of the hard-core radius much smaller than the correlation length of the Coulomb-gas species and at a strictly finite temperature, due to the counterion condensation in the extended region β|Q| > 2, the renormalized charge Q ren turns out to be a periodic function of the bare charge Q with period 1. The renormalized charge therefore does not saturate at a specific finite value as |Q| →∞, but oscillates between two extreme values. In the high-temperature Poisson-Boltzmann scaling regime of limits β→ 0 and Q→∞ with the product β Q being finite, one reproduces the Manning-Oosawa type of counterion condensation with the uniform saturation of β Q ren at the value 4/π in the region β|Q| ≥ 2. The obtained results disprove the “regularization hypothesis” of the previous work about the possibility of an analytic continuation of the formula for Q ren from the stability region β |Q| < 2 to β |Q| ≥ 2.
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Šamaj, L. Renormalization of a Hard-Core Guest Charge Immersed in a Two-Dimensional Electrolyte. J Stat Phys 124, 1179–1206 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-006-9122-y
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