 Coulomb coupling (source code)

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The importance of electrostatic interaction energy compared with thermal energy. For mean separation $a$, a common measure is $\Gamma=e^2/(4\pi\epsilon_0ak_BT)$; the weakly coupled regime has $\Gamma\ll1$.

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