Abstract. We study a system of N particles with logarithmic, Coulomb or Riesz pairwise interactions, confined by an external potential. We examine a microscopic quantity, the tagged empirical field, for which we prove a large deviation principle at speed N . The rate function is the sum of an entropy term, the specific relative entropy, and an energy term, the renormalized energy introduced in previous works, coupled by the temperature.We deduce a variational property of the sine-beta processes which arise in random matrix theory. We also give a next-to-leading order expansion of the free energy of the system, proving the existence of the thermodynamic limit.

We prove a Central Limit Theorem for the linear statistics of two-dimensional Coulomb gases, with arbitrary inverse temperature and general confining potential, at the macroscopic and mesoscopic scales and possibly near the boundary of the support of the equilibrium measure. This can be stated in terms of convergence of the random electrostatic potential to a Gaussian Free Field.Our result is the first to be valid at arbitrary temperature and at the mesoscopic scales, and we recover previous results of Ameur-Hendenmalm-Makarov and Rider-Virág concerning the determinantal case, with weaker assumptions near the boundary. We also prove moderate deviations upper bounds, or rigidity estimates, for the linear statistics and a convergence result for those corresponding to energy-minimizers.The method relies on a change of variables, a perturbative expansion of the energy, and the comparison of partition functions deduced from our previous work. Near the boundary, we use recent quantitative stability estimates on the solutions to the obstacle problem obtained by Serra and the second author.

We prove a central limit theorem for the linear statistics of one-dimensional log-gases, or β-ensembles. We use a method based on a change of variables which allows to treat fairly general situations, including multi-cut and, for the first time, critical cases, and generalizes the previously known results of Johansson, Borot-Guionnet and Shcherbina. In the one-cut regular case, our approach also allows to retrieve a rate of convergence as well as previously known expansions of the free energy to arbitrary order.

The study of two-dimensional Coulomb gases lies at the interface of statistical physics and non-Hermitian random matrix theory. In this paper we give a large deviation principle (LDP) for the empirical fields obtained, under the canonical Gibbs measure, by zooming around a point in the bulk of the equilibrium measure, up to the finest averaging scale N −1/2+ε . The rate function is given by the sum of the "renormalized energy" of Serfaty et al. weighted by the inverse temperature, and of the specific relative entropy. We deduce a local law which quantifies the convergence of the empirical measures of the particles to the equilibrium measure, up to the finest scale.

We investigate Sineβ, the universal point process arising as the thermodynamic limit of the microscopic scale behavior in the bulk of one‐dimensional log‐gases, or β‐ensembles, at inverse temperature β > 0. We adopt a statistical physics perspective, and give a description of Sineβ using the Dobrushin‐Lanford‐Ruelle (DLR) formalism by proving that it satisfies the DLR equations: the restriction of Sineβ to a compact set, conditionally on the exterior configuration, reads as a Gibbs measure given by a finite log‐gas in a potential generated by the exterior configuration. In short, Sineβ is a natural infinite Gibbs measure at inverse temperature β > 0 associated with the logarithmic pair potential interaction. Moreover, we show that Sineβ is number‐rigid and tolerant in the sense of Ghosh‐Peres; i.e., the number, but not the position, of particles lying inside a compact set is a deterministic function of the exterior configuration. Our proof of the rigidity differs from the usual strategy and is robust enough to include more general long‐range interactions in arbitrary dimension. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Abstract. We derive a large deviations principle for the two-dimensional two-component plasma in a box. As a consequence, we obtain a variational representation for the free energy, and also show that the macroscopic empirical measure of either positive or negative charges converges to the uniform measure. An appendix, written by Wei Wu, discusses applications to the supercritical complex Gaussian multiplicative chaos.

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We define a notion of logarithmic, Coulomb and Riesz interactions in any dimension for random systems of infinite charged point configurations with a uniform background of opposite sign. We connect this interaction energy with the "renormalized energy" studied by Serfaty et al., which appears in the free energy functional governing the microscopic behavior of logarithmic, Coulomb and Riesz gases. Minimizers of this functional include the Sine-beta processes in the one-dimensional Log-gas case. Using our explicit expression (inspired by the work of Borodin-Serfaty) we prove their convergence to the Poisson process in the high-temperature limit as well as a crystallization result in the low-temperature limit for one-dimensional systems.