Failure of Ornstein-Zernike asymptotics for the pair correlation function at high temperature and small density

Phys Rev E. 2021 May;103(5):L050104. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.103.L050104.

Abstract

We report on recent results that show that the pair correlation function of systems with exponentially decaying interactions can fail to exhibit Ornstein-Zernike asymptotics at all sufficiently high temperatures and all sufficiently small densities. This turns out to be related to a lack of analyticity of the correlation length as a function of temperature and/or density and even occurs for one-dimensional systems.