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Screened Coulombic Orientational Correlations in Dilute Aqueous Electrolytes

Chemical Physics 2018-03-29 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

The ion-induced long-range orientational order between water molecules recently observed in second harmonic scattering experiments and illustrated with large scale molecular dynamics simulations is quantitatively explained using the Ornstein-Zernike integral equation approach of liquid physics. This general effect, not specific to hydrogen-bonding solvents, is controlled by electroneutrality condition, dipolar interactions and dielectric+ionic screening. As expected, all numerical theories recover the well-known analytical expressions established 40 years ago.

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@article{arxiv.1803.10566,
  title  = {Screened Coulombic Orientational Correlations in Dilute Aqueous Electrolytes},
  author = {Luc Belloni and Daniel Borgis and Maximilien Levesque},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.10566},
  year   = {2018}
}

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14 pages + SI