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Integral equation study of effective attraction between like-charged particles mediated by cations: Comparison between IPY2 and HNC closures

Soft Condensed Matter 2022-10-26 v2 Chemical Physics Classical Physics Computational Physics

Abstract

Effective interactions between like-charged particles immersed in an electrolyte solution were calculated using two integral equation theories, hypernetted-chain (HNC)-Ornstein--Zernike (OZ) and ionic Percus--Yevick 2 (IPY2)-OZ. When the HNC-OZ theory was adopted, the electrolyte concentration dependence of the effective interaction showed a reentrant behavior. By contrast, the IPY2-OZ theory did not indicate the behavior. Monte Carlo simulations were performed for one of the model systems, and the results agreed qualitatively with those calculated using the HNC-OZ theory.

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@article{arxiv.2206.13875,
  title  = {Integral equation study of effective attraction between like-charged particles mediated by cations: Comparison between IPY2 and HNC closures},
  author = {Michika Takeda and Kotetsu Maruyama and Ryo Akiyama and Tatsuhiko Miyata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.13875},
  year   = {2022}
}

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19 pages (6 pages of them are acknowledgments references list)