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We develop a stochastic model for the charge fluctuations on a microscopic dust particle resting on a surface exposed to plasma. We find in steady state that the fluctuations are normally distributed with a standard deviation that is…

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We apply general variational techniques to the problem of the counterion distribution around highly charged objects where strong condensation of counterions takes place. Within a field-theoretic formulation using a fluctuating electrostatic…

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We present two methods for solving the electrostatics of point charges and multipoles on the surface of a sphere, \textit{i.e.} in the space $\mathcal{S}_{2}$, with applications to numerical simulations of two-dimensional polar fluids. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-23 Jean-Michel Caillol

The charge state of dielectric surfaces in aqueous environments is of fundamental and technological importance. Here, we study the influence of dissolved molecular CO$_2$ on the charging of three, chemically different surfaces (SiO$_2$,…

The geometric representation at a fixed frequency of the wavevector (or dispersion) surface $\omega(\vec k)$ for lossless, homogeneous dielectric--magnetic uniaxial materials is explored, when the elements of the relative permittivity and…

We describe a generic mechanism by which a system of Dirac fermions in thermal equilibrium acquires electric charge in an external magnetic field. To this end the fermions should have an additional quantum number, isospin or color, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-13 F. Bruckmann , P. V. Buividovich , T. Sulejmanpasic

Surface electric (charge) noise influences spin defects due to fluctuation of the surface charge density and also the electrostatic potential at the crystal surface. Surprisingly, the two-point correlation function of both the charged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Denis R. Candido , Michael E. Flatté

The model of charge generation is based on the wave model of a particle, for which a brief description is given. The particle is comprised of two photons, captured in the volume of the particle, and reveals the complete relativistic…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Herbert Weiss

In this paper, the initial value problem for the Debye--Hueckel drift-diffusion equation is studied. This equation was introduced as a model describing plasma behavior and is also known as a simulation model of MOSFET, and so its solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Masakazu Yamamoto

We investigate how the combination of nonequilibrium effects and material properties impacts on the Casimir-Polder interaction between an atom and a surface. By addressing systems with temperature inhomogeneities and laser interactions, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-22 Nicola Bartolo , Riccardo Messina , Diego A. R. Dalvit , Francesco Intravaia

Mobile charge in an electrolytic solution can in principle be represented as the divergence of ionic polarization. After adding explicit solvent polarization a finite volume of electrolyte can then be treated as a composite non-uniform…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-03 Michiel Sprik

By using a method, previously established to calculate electromagnetic fields, we compute the force of light upon a metallic particle. This procedure is based on both Maxwell's Stress Tensor and the Couple Dipole Method. With these tools,…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. C. Chaumet , M. Nieto-Vesperinas

It is shown that the partial temperatures of a homogeneous multicomponent gas mixture in the thermodynamical equilibrium cannot be equal to each other. New general solutions for equilibrium distribution functions of the multicomponent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yurii M. Loskutov

We studied the dynamics of surfacea and wake charges induced by a charged particle traversing a dielectric slab. It is shown that after the crossing of the slab first boundary, the induced on the slab surface charge (image charge) is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. B. Nersisyan

The charge and potential distributions for insulating particles approaching a substrate with regular insulating structures are studied by particle-in-cell numerical simulations. An elongated particle and substrate with elongated structures…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 W J Miloch , S V Vladimirov

The open nonlinear electrodynamic system - nonlinear transverse non-homogeneous dielectric layer, is an example of inorganic system having the properties of self-organization, peculiar to biological systems. The necessary precondition of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Yatsyk

We study the aggregation of insulating electrically charged spheres suspended in a nonpolar liquid. Regarding the van der Waals interaction as an irreversible sticking force, we are especially interested in the charge distribution after…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jochen H. Werth , Henning Knudsen , Haye Hinrichsen

The development of the theory of three-dimensional harmonic mappings is considered. The new classes of mappings that generate three-dimensional harmonic functions are introduced. The physical interpretation of these mappings is applied to…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-04 Andrey Petrin

In this paper we study relativistic dynamics of charged particles co-rotating with prescribed trajectories, having the shape of dipolar magnetic field lines. In particular, we consider the role of the drag force caused by the photon field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 G. G. Bakhtadze , V. I. Berezhiani , Z. Osmanov

We study the linear stability of transient electrodeposition in a charged random porous medium, whose pore surface charges can be of any sign, flanked by a pair of planar metal electrodes. Discretization of the linear stability problem…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 Edwin Khoo , Hongbo Zhao , Martin Z. Bazant