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The goal of this paper is to study the electrostatic field due to an arbitrary charge distribution on a dielectric layer in a dielectric-loaded rectangular waveguide. In order to obtain this electrostatic field, the potential due to a point…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 A. Berenguer , A. Coves , F. Mesa , E. Bronchalo , B. Gimeno , V. Boria

The mechanisms of electrostatic interactions between two charged dielectric spheres inside a polarizable medium have been investigated, in terms of hypothetical effective dipoles that depict how the positive and negative charge in each…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-06 Yanyu Duan , Zecheng Gan , Ho-Kei Chan

Charged colloidal monolayers at the interface between water and air (or oil) are used in a large number of chemical, physical and biological applications. Although a considerable experimental and theoretical effort has been devoted in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-03 Aviv Karnieli , Tomer Markovich , David Andelman

We study the effective interaction between differently charged polyelectrolyte-colloid complexes in electrolyte solutions via Monte Carlo simulations. These complexes are formed when short and flexible polyelectrolyte chains adsorb onto…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-05 D. Truzzolillo , F. Bordi , F. Sciortino , S. Sennato

We perform computational investigations of electrolyte-mediated interactions of charged colloidal particles confined within nanochannels. We investigate the role of discrete ion effects, valence, and electrolyte strength on colloid-wall…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-28 Inderbir S. Sidhu , Amalie L. Frischknecht , Paul J. Atzberger

This paper builds on two previous works, Lindgren et al. J. Comp. Phys. 371, 712-731 (2018) and Quan et al. arXiv:1807.05384 (2018), to devise a new method to solve the problem of calculating electrostatic interactions in a system composed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-20 Eric B. Lindgren , Chaoyu Quan , Benjamin Stamm

We consider a system of colloidal particles embedded in a paranematic -- an isotropic phase of a nematogenic medium above the temperature of the nematic-to-isotropic transition. In this state, the nematic order is induced by the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Dmitry Golovaty , Jamie Taylor , Raghavendra Venkatraman , Arghir Zarnescu

We study the effective interaction between two ellipsoidal particles at the interface of two fluid phases which are mediated by thermal fluctuations of the interface. In this system the restriction of the long--ranged interface fluctuations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-05-30 Ehsan Noruzifar , Martin Oettel

We present a theoretical study of dielectrophoretic (DEP) crossover spectrum of two polarizable particles under the action of a nonuniform AC electric field. For two approaching particles, the mutual polarization interaction yields a change…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Huang , Mikko Karttunen , K. W. Yu , L. Dong

Manipulation of the charge of the dielectric interface between two bulk liquids not only enables the adjustment of the interfacial tension but also controls the storage capacity of ions in the ionic double layers adjacent to each side of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-14 Marise J. E. Westbroek , Niels Boon , René van Roij

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…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Yan Levin

While the interaction potential between two dipoles residing in a single plane is repulsive, in a system of two vertically adjacent layers of dipoles it changes from repulsive interaction in the long range to attractive interaction in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-29 Kobi Cohen , Maxim Khodas , Boris Laikhtman , Paulo V. Santos , Ronen Rapaport

Nonmagnetic spheres confined in a ferrofluid layer (magnetic holes) present dipolar interactions when an external magnetic field is exerted. The interaction potential of a microsphere pair is derived analytically, with a precise care for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Renaud Toussaint , Jørgen Akselvoll , Eirik G. Flekkøy , Geir Helgesen , Arne T. Skjeltorp

We consider a one-dimensional model allowing analytical derivation of the effective interactions between two charged colloids. We evaluate exactly the partition function for an electroneutral salt-free suspension with dielectric jumps at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-23 Lucas Varela , Gabriel Tellez , Emmanuel Trizac

Light-matter interaction models invariably rely on the multipole expansion of the electromagnetic potentials generated by complex charge distributions. These multipoles are typically taken to be traceless, however, for a correct evaluation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Jivesh Kaushal , Chris Boldt , Stefan Scheel , Athanasios Laliotis , Paolo Pedri

Electrostatics in the solution phase is governed by free electrical charges such as ions, as well as by bound charges that arise when a polarizable medium responds to an applied field. In a local medium, described by a constant dielectric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-04 Ali Behjatian , Ralf Blossey , Madhavi Krishnan

Computer simulations are used to investigate the response of a charged colloid and its surrounding microion cloud to an external electric field. Both static fields (DC) and alternating fields (AC) are considered. A mesoscopic simulation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-07-19 Jiajia Zhou , Roman Schmitz , Burkard Duenweg , Friederike Schmid

We present a theory to investigate electro-kinetic behavior, namely, electrorotation and dielectrophoresis under alternating current (AC) applied fields for a pair of touching inhomogeneous colloidal particles and biological cells. These…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Huang , Mikko Karttunen , K. W. Yu , L. Dong , G. Q. Gu

The closed integral equations for the interfacial tension as a function of external polarization at the liquid metal - ionic melt interface are derived. The version of Popel'-Pavlov isotherm is applied to the analysis of electrocapillary…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oleg A. Kobelev , Alexandr V. Kobelev

Colloidal particles trapped at an interface between two fluids can form a wide range of different structures. Replacing one of the fluid with a liquid crystal increases the complexity of interactions and results in a greater range of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-20 Anne Claire Pawsey , Juho Lintuvuori