Dielectric Screening in a Spherical Cavity
Classical Physics
2009-11-13 v1 Biological Physics
Computational Physics
Abstract
In this work we examine the electrostatic screening potential due to a point charge located off-centre in a spherical dielectric cavity. This potential is expanded for the case in which the dielectric constant is large, several methods of finding the terms in the expansion are investigated, and closed-form expressions are found through third order in along with error bounds. Finally, possible uses of these expressions in molecular dynamics simulations of isolated charged molecules is discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.1553,
title = {Dielectric Screening in a Spherical Cavity},
author = {Christopher J Glosser and Roger C Hill},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.1553},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 Pages, 5 Figures, To be submitted to J. Phys. A. Uses iopart.cls