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The Effect of Charge Discretization on the Electrical Field inside a Conductor

Classical Physics 2024-01-09 v1

Abstract

We show how the electrical field inside the conductor changes as a function of the number of charged-particles. We show that the non-vanishing electrical field is concentrated near the surface of the conductor, at a shallow depth on the same order of magnitude as the separation between charges. Our study has illustrated the effect of charge discretization on a fundamental emergent law of electrostatics.

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@article{arxiv.2208.00350,
  title  = {The Effect of Charge Discretization on the Electrical Field inside a Conductor},
  author = {Nam H. Nguyen and Quy C. Tran and Thach A. Nguyen and Trung Phan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.00350},
  year   = {2024}
}