Counter-ions near a charged wall: exact results for disc and planar geometries

DOI10.1007/S10955-015-1308-8zbMATH Open1327.82022arXiv1511.00882OpenAlexW3106517614MaRDI QIDQ888949FDOQ888949

Authors: Ladislav Šamaj 

Publication date: 5 November 2015

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Macromolecules, when immersed in a polar solvent like water, become charged by a fixed surface charge density which is compensated by ``counter-ions moving out of the surface. Such classical particle systems exhibit poor screening properties at any temperature and the trivial bulk regime (far away from the charged surface) with no particles, so the validity of standard Coulomb sum rules is questionable. In the present paper, we concentrate on the two-dimensional version of the model with the logarithmic interaction potential. We go from the finite disc to the semi-infinite planar geometry. The system is exactly solvable for two values of the coupling constant $Gamma$: in the Poisson-Boltzmann mean-field limit $Gammao0$ and at the free-fermion point $Gamma=2$. We show that the finite-size expansion of the free energy does not contain universal term as is usual for Coulomb fluids. For the coupling constant being an arbitrary positive even integer, using an anticommuting representation of the partition function and many-body densities we derive a sequence of sum rules. As a result, the contact density of counter-ions at the wall is available for the disc. The amplitude function, which characterizes the asymptotic inverse-power law behavior of the two-body density along the wall, is found to be related to the particle density profile. The dielectric susceptibility tensor, calculated exactly for an arbitrary coupling and the particle number, exhibits the anticipated disc value in the thermodynamic limit, in spite of zero contribution from the bulk region. Some of the results obtained in the Poisson-Boltzmann limit are generalized to an arbitrary Euclidean dimension.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00882

Recommendations

• Attraction of like-charged walls with counterions only: exact results for the 2D cylinder geometry
• Counter-ions between or at asymmetrically charged walls: 2D free-fermion point
• Two-dimensional Coulomb systems in a disk with ideal dielectric boundaries.
• Electric double layers with modulated surface charge density: exact 2D results
• An analytic treatment of the first-order correction to the Poisson-Boltzmann interaction free energy in the case of counterion-only Coulomb fluid

zbMATH Keywords

sum rulescounter-ionsfree-fermion pointlogarithmic Coulomb interactiondielectric susceptibility tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21) Hypersonic flows (76K05)

Cites Work

• The sixth-moment sum rule for the pair correlations of the two-dimensional one-component plasma: Exact result
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Charge and current sum rules in quantum media coupled to radiation. II
• Classical Coulomb systems: Screening and correlations revisited.
• A functional relation among the pair correlations of the two-dimensional one-component plasma.
• Is the two-dimensional one-component plasma exactly solvable?
• An analytic treatment of the first-order correction to the Poisson-Boltzmann interaction free energy in the case of counterion-only Coulomb fluid
• 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.
• Microscopic calculation of the dielectric susceptibility tensor for Coulomb fluids
• Charge correlations in a Coulomb system along a plane wall: A relation between asymptotic behavior and dipole moment
• Counter-ions between or at asymmetrically charged walls: 2D free-fermion point
• Coulomb systems seen as critical systems: Finite-size effects in two dimensions
• Microscopic calculation of the dielectric susceptibility tensor for Coulomb fluids. II
• Coulomb systems seen as critical systems: Ideal conductor boundaries.
• A sum rule for the two-dimensional two-component plasma

Cited In (12)

• Effective interaction between guest charges immersed in 2D jellium
• Density profiles in a classical Coulomb fluid near a dielectric wall. I: Mean-field scheme. II: Weak-coupling systematic expansions.
• An analytic treatment of the first-order correction to the Poisson-Boltzmann interaction free energy in the case of counterion-only Coulomb fluid
• Finite-size effects in non-neutral two-dimensional Coulomb fluids
• Differential capacitance of uniformly charged hard-sphere ions in planar electric double layers
• 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 between or at asymmetrically charged walls: 2D free-fermion point
• Guest charges in an electrolyte: renormalized charge, long- and short-distance behavior of the electric potential and density profiles
• Effective charge of cylindrical and spherical colloids immersed in an electrolyte: the quasi-planar limit
• Ion diffusion in a Coulombic field.
• Electric double layers with modulated surface charge density: exact 2D results

This page was built for publication: Counter-ions near a charged wall: exact results for disc and planar geometries

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q888949)