When Do Like Charges Attract?
Soft Condensed Matter
2015-06-25 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We study the interaction potential between two polyions inside a colloidal suspension. It is shown that at large separation the interaction potential is purely repulsive, with the induced attractive interactions being doubly screened. For short separations the condensed counterions become correlated, what leads to an effective attraction between the two macromolecules.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9802153,
title = {When Do Like Charges Attract?},
author = {Yan Levin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9802153},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 Postscript figure, uses multicol.sty, axodraw.sty, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett