Velocity Autocorrelation Function and Dynamical Structure Factor of the Classical One-Component Plasma

We present molecular-dynamics computations of the velocity autocorrelation function and the dynamical structure factor of the classical one-component plasma. At high densities, the former exhibits marked oscillations, whereas the latter consists of very sharp peaks near the plasma frequency, up to wave vectors of order 1/a, where a is the ion-sphere radius. The resulting dispersion curve is discussed.