GABRIELLI , A.

We explore the formation and relaxation of so-called quasi-stationary states (QSS) for particle distributions in three dimensions interacting via an attractive radial pair potential V(r→∞)∼1/rγ with γ>0, and either a soft-core or hard-core regularization at small r. In the first part of the paper we generalize, for any spatial dimension d≥2,...

We formalize a classification of pair interactions based on the convergence properties of the {\it forces} acting on particles as a function of system size. We do so by considering the behavior of the probability distribution function (PDF) P(F) of the force field F in a particle distribution in the limit that the size of the system is taken to...