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The differential and total cross sections for electron capture by positrons from helium atoms are calculated using a first-order distorted wave theory satisfying the Coulomb boundary conditions. In this formalism a parametric potential is…

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We present a stability and convergence analysis of the space-time continuous finite element method for the Hamiltonian formulation of the wave equation. More precisely, we prove a continuous dependence of the discrete solution on the data…

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Within a dipolar Poisson-Boltzmann theory including electrostatic correlations, we consider the effect of explicit solvent structure on solvent and ion partition confined to charged nanopores. We develop a relaxation scheme for the solution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-28 Sahin Buyukdagli

Inferring properties of macroscopic solutions from molecular simulations is complicated by the limited size of systems that can be feasibly examined with a computer. When long-ranged electrostatic interactions are involved, the resulting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-14 Stephen J. Cox , Phillip L. Geissler

We develop an Explicitly Solvable Energy-Conserving (ESEC) algorithm for the Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) describing the pitch-angle scattering process in magnetized plasmas. The Cayley transform is used to calculate both the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Yichen Fu , Xin Zhang , Hong Qin

The basic continuum model for polar fluids is deceptively simple. The free energy integral consists of four terms: The coupling of polarization to an external field, the electrostatic energy of the induced electric field interacting with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-22 Michiel Sprik

In sphere of research of discrete optimization algorithms efficiency the important place occupies a method of polynomial reducibility of some problems to others with use of special purpose components. In this paper a novel method of compact…

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A variety of electrostatic phenomena, including the structure of electric double layers and the aggregation of charged colloids and proteins, are affected by nonuniform electric permittivity. These effects are frequently ignored in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-17 Huanxin Wu , Erik Luijten

Implicit solvation is an effective, highly coarse-grained approach in atomic-scale simulations to account for a surrounding liquid electrolyte on the level of a continuous polarizable medium. Originating in molecular chemistry with finite…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Stefan Ringe , Nicolas G. Hörmann , Harald Oberhofer , Karsten Reuter

We investigate spherically symmetric continuously self-similar (CSS) solutions in the SU(2) sigma model coupled to gravity. Using mixed numerical and analytical methods, we provide evidence for the existence (for small coupling) of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Piotr Bizoń , Arthur Wasserman

In this work we study self-consistent solutions in one-dimensional lattice models obtained via many-body perturbation theory. The Dyson equation is solved in a fully self-consistent manner via the algorithmic-inversion method based on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-24 Matteo Quinzi , Tommaso Chiarotti , Marco Gibertini , Andrea Ferretti

We describe a rapidly converging algorithm for solving the Kohn--Sham equations and equations of similar structure that appear frequently in calculations of the structure of inhomogeneous electronic many--body systems. The algorithm has its…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Auer , E. Krotscheck

Solvation free energy is an important quantity in Computational Chemistry with a variety of applications, especially in drug discovery and design. The accurate prediction of solvation free energies of small molecules in water is still a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Hildebrandt , O. Kohlbacher , R. Blossey , H. -P. Lenhof

For many chemical processes the accurate description of solvent effects are vitally important. Here, we describe a hybrid ansatz for the explicit quantum mechanical description of solute-solvent and solvent-solvent interactions based on…

A consistent device model to describe current-voltage characteristics of metal/insulator/metal systems is developed. In this model the insulator and the metal electrodes are described within the same theoretical framework by using density…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Neumann , Y. A. Genenko , C. Melzer , H. von Seggern

The self-consistent quantum-electrostatic (also known as Poisson-Schr\"odinger) problem is notoriously difficult in situations where the density of states varies rapidly with energy. At low temperatures, these fluctuations make the problem…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 P. Armagnat , A. Lacerda-Santos , B. Rossignol , C. Groth , X. Waintal

The self-consistent procedure in electronic structure calculations is revisited using a highly efficient and robust algorithm for solving the non-linear eigenvector problem i.e. H({{\psi}}){\psi} = E{\psi}. This new scheme is derived from a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Brendan Gavin , Eric Polizzi

A parallel implementation of an eigensolver designed for electronic structure calculations is presented. The method is applicable to computational tasks that solve a sequence of eigenvalue problems where the solution for a particular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-02 E. L. Briggs , C. T. Kelley , J. Bernholc

A self-consistent method for calculating electron transport through a molecular device is proposed. It is based on density functional theory electronic structure calculations under periodic boundary conditions and implemented in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 San-Huang Ke , Harold U. Baranger , Weitao Yang

A finite element discretization using a method of lines approached is proposed for approximately solving the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations. This discretization scheme enforces positivity of the computed solutions, corresponding to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Chun Liu , Maximilian Metti , Jinchao Xu