Renormalisation of Hydrogen Partition Function and Saha Ionisation Equation

arXiv Physics Wednesday 04 November 2026, 05:04 UTC By George Savvidy, Pengming Zhang 1 min read

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arXiv:2611.03671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An important physical quantity that is part of the Saha ionisation equation is the partition function of the neutral hydrogen atoms. An immense uncertainty is caused by the divergency of the neutral atom partition function arising due to the fast growing degeneracy factor of its excited n-state. We suggested a regularisation and renormalisation procedure for the partition function of the neutral hydrogen atoms. The renormalised partition function is well defined and allows to calculate the population of the energy levels and the ionisation state of the hydrogen plasma as a function of its temperature and pressure. In the low-temperature limit the behaviour of these functions smoothly transforms to the Saha equation, which is used in the description of the low-temperature plasma. At higher temperatures the renormalised ionisation equation describes the deviation from the Saha equation. The application of the renormalised ionisation equation to the solar core and atmosphere is considered.

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Renormalisation of Hydrogen Partition Function and Saha Ionisation Equation

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