Testing the relevance of effective interaction potentials between highly charged colloids in suspension
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
Combining cell and Jellium model mean-field approaches, Monte Carlo together with integral equation techniques, and finally more demanding many-colloid mean-field computations, we investigate the thermodynamic behavior, pressure and compressibility of highly charged colloidal dispersions, and at a more microscopic level, the force distribution acting on the colloids. The Kirkwood-Buff identity provides a useful probe to challenge the self-consistency of an approximate effective screened Coulomb (Yukawa) potential between colloids. Two effective parameter models are put to the test: cell against renormalized Jellium models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0609575,
title = {Testing the relevance of effective interaction potentials between highly charged colloids in suspension},
author = {J. Dobnikar and R. Castañeda-Priego and H. H. von Grünberg and E. Trizac},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0609575},
year = {2007}
}