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Armenian Journal of Physics=Ֆիզիկայի հայկական հանդես
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Nonlocal Potentials and Crystalline Order in One and Two Dimensions
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Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography University of North Carolina Wilmington
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crystalline order ; Bogoliubov inequality ; quantum theorem ; local and nonlocal pair potentials
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We revisit the seminal 1968 proof of the absence of crystalline order in two dimensions and analyze the importance played in the quantum theorem by the assumption of local pair potentials. We relax the assumption of local potentials and consider instead nonlocal pair potentials. We show that the 1/k2-singularity that occurs in the Bogoliubov inequality, which leads to no crystalline order in two dimensions for local potentials and nonzero temperatures, does not occur for nonlocal potentials. Accordingly, crystalline order in one and two dimensions cannot be ruled out for nonlocal pair potentials at finite temperatures.