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Quantum point contacts (QPC) are fundamental building blocks of nanoelectronic circuits. For their emission dynamics as well as for interaction effects such as the 0.7-anomaly the details of the electrostatic potential are important, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-21 Max Geier , Jaan Freudenfeld , Jorge T. Silva , Vladimir Umansky , Dirk Reuter , Andreas D. Wieck , Piet W. Brouwer , Stefan Ludwig

We study the electric field around a continuous one-dimensional loop of static charge, under the assumption that the charge is distributed uniformly along the loop. For rectangular or stadium-shaped loops in the plane, we find that the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Max Lipton , Steven H Strogatz , Alex Townsend

We study the problem of rotating a simple polygon to contain the maximum number of elements from a given point set in the plane. We consider variations of this problem where the rotation center is a given point or lies on a line segment, a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Carlos Alegría-Galicia , David Orden , Leonidas Palios , Carlos Seara , Jorge Urrutia

The number of allowed configurations of a polymer is reduced by the presence of a repulsive surface resulting in an entropic force between them. We develop a method to calculate the entropic force, and detailed pressure distribution, for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-11 Yosi Hammer , Yacov Kantor

We discuss the dynamics of a charged nonrelativistic particle in electromagnetic field of a rotating magnetized celestial body. The equations of motion of the particle are obtained and some particular solutions are found. Effective…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-08 V. Epp , M. A. Masterova

Two overall neutral surfaces with positive and negative charged domains ("patches") have been shown in recent experiments to exhibit long-range attraction when immersed in an ionic solution. Motivated by the experiments, we calculate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Ram M. Adar , David Andelman , Haim Diamant

The electrostatic field energy due to two fixed pointlike charges shows some peculiar features concerning the distribution in space of the field energy density of the system. Here we discuss the evaluation of the field energy and the…

Popular Physics · Physics 2013-06-13 A C Tort

We examine the stability of ringlike configurations of N charges on a plane interacting through the potential $V(z_1,...,z_N)=\sum_i |z_i|^2-\sum_{i<j} ln|z_i-z_j|^2$. We interpret the equilibrium distributions in terms of a shell model and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Kogan , A. M. Perelomov , G. W. Semenoff

Yet more candidates are proposed for inclusion in the Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers. Our focus is entirely on simple calculations.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2014-06-09 Steven R. Finch

Theories of solvation free energies often involve electrostatic potentials at the position of a solute charge. Simulation calculations that apply cutoffs and periodic boundary conditions based on molecular centers result in center-dependent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Gerhard Hummer , Lawrence R. Pratt , Angel E. Garcia , Bruce J. Berne , Steven W. Rick

Attention is paid to the fact that the stress tensor diagonal components of the point charged particle field in three-dimensional electrodynamics are equal to zero. It allows to suppose the particle mass origin is field in the model, if one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Sh. Pevzner

The Dirichlet Principle is an approach to solving the Dirichlet problem by means of a Dirichlet energy integral. It is part of the folklore of mathematics that the genesis of this argument was motivated by physical analogy involving…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Steven Deckelman

We consider the three-dimensional Dirac equation in spherical coordinates with coupling to static electromagnetic potential. The space components of the potential have angular (non-central) dependence such that the Dirac equation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Alhaidari

In this work, we present an analytical study of the electrostatic potential generated by a charged disk with a surface charge distribution that possesses radial axial symmetry. We express the potential in cylindrical coordinates and apply a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Jose Ricardo de Sousa , Marcio Gomes da Silva , Orion Ciftja

Using the method of C. V\"or\"os, we establish results on hyperbolic plane geometry, related to triangles. In this note we investigate the orthocenter, the concept of isogonal conjugate and some further center as of the symmedian of a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Ákos G. Horváth

The boundary-value problem for the perturbation of an electric potential by a homogeneous anisotropic dielectric sphere in vacuum was formulated. The total potential in the exterior region was expanded in series of radial polynomials and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Nikolaos L. Tsitsas , Hamad M. Alkhoori

We consider the Brans-Dicke Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime in isotropic coordinates and the electrostatic field of an electric point charge placed outside its surface of inversion. We treat the static electric point charge as a linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Maya Watanabe , A. W. C Lun

Various types of equilibrium processes involve electric fields. In some cases, the electrical energy appears to be negative (e.g. if the voltage is fixed by an external source). This paper explains how to derive the correct thermo-dynamic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 Shawn W. Walker

In this work we discuss about the problem of an electrically charged particle placed on the symmetry axis of an electrically charged ring in a quantum viewpoint. This problem should be an expanded version of the usual quantum ring and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Wytler Cordeiro dos Santos , Bruno Carmo Nunes , Ronni G. G. Amorim

We discuss an alternative way of prescribing the spacetime geometry associated with a non-radiating distribution of charged matter. It is based on the possibility that the electrostatic self-energy does not reside on the Coulombian field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-23 Carlos Barcelo , Jose Luis Jaramillo