Counter-ions between or at asymmetrically charged walls: 2D free-fermion point
From MaRDI portal
Publication:743440
DOI10.1007/S10955-014-1053-4zbMATH Open1302.82008arXiv1406.6621OpenAlexW3170155016MaRDI QIDQ743440FDOQ743440
Authors: Emmanuel Trizac, Ladislav Šamaj 
Publication date: 24 September 2014
Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: This work contributes to the problem of determining effective interaction between asymmetrically (likely or oppositely) charged objects whose total charge is neutralized by mobile pointlike counter-ions of the same charge, the whole system being in thermal equilibrium. The problem is formulated in two spatial dimensions with logarithmic Coulomb interactions. The charged objects correspond to two parallel lines at distance d, with fixed line charge densities. Two versions of the model are considered: the standard "unconstrained" one with particles moving freely between the lines and the "constrained" one with particles confined to the lines. We solve exactly both systems at the free-fermion coupling and compare the results for the pressure (i.e. the force between the lines per unit length of one of the lines) with the mean-field Poisson-Boltzmann solution. For the unconstrained model, the large-d asymptotic behaviour of the free-fermion pressure differs from that predicted by the mean-field theory. For the constrained model, the asymptotic pressure coincides with the attractive van der Waals-Casimir fluctuational force. For both models, there are fundamental differences between the cases of likely-charged and oppositely-charged lines, the latter case corresponding at large distances d to a capacitor.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6621
Recommendations
- Attraction of like-charged walls with counterions only: exact results for the 2D cylinder geometry
- Counter-ions near a charged wall: exact results for disc and planar geometries
- Electric double layers with modulated surface charge density: exact 2D results
- Exact solution of a charge-asymmetric two-dimensional Coulomb gas
- Coulomb systems with ideal dielectric boundaries: Free fermion point and universality.
Cites Work
- New developments in the Casimir effect
- Title not available (Why is that?)
- A functional relation among the pair correlations of the two-dimensional one-component plasma.
- Soft condensed matter physics in molecular and cell biology. Lectures from the NATO Advanced Science Institute (ASI) and Scottish Universities Summer Schools in Physics (SUSSP) 59, Edinburgh, March 29--April 8, 2004.
- On the two-dimensional Coulomb gas
- Translation symmetry breaking in the one-component plasma on the cylinder
- Microscopic origin of universality in Casimir forces
- Screening of classical Casimir forces by electrolytes in semi-infinite geometries
Cited In (6)
- Electric double layer of electrons: attraction between two like-charged surfaces induced by Fermi-Dirac statistics
- Finite-size effects in non-neutral two-dimensional Coulomb fluids
- Amplitude function of asymptotic correlations along charged wall in Coulomb fluids
- Attraction of like-charged walls with counterions only: exact results for the 2D cylinder geometry
- Counter-ions near a charged wall: exact results for disc and planar geometries
- Electric double layers with modulated surface charge density: exact 2D results
This page was built for publication: Counter-ions between or at asymmetrically charged walls: 2D free-fermion point
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q743440)
