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The behaviour and stability of soft and biological matter depend significantly on electrostatic interactions, as particles such as proteins and colloids acquire a charge when dispersed in an electrolytic solution. A typical simplification…

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Casimir friction between a polarizable particle and a semi-infinite space is a delicate physical phenomenon, as it concerns the interaction between a microscopic quantum particle and a semi-infinite reservoir. Not unexpectedly, results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 J. S. Høye , I. Brevik , K. A. Milton

The mutual electromagnetic correlations between two spatially separated systems gives rise to Casimir and Casimir-Polder effect. The corresponding forces, which are generally attractive for most vacuum-separated metallic or dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Partha Goswami

The dynamics of two two-level dipole-dipole interacting atoms coupled to a common electromagnetic bath and closely located inside a lossy cavity, is reported. Initially injecting only one excitation in the two atoms-cavity system, loss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Nicolosi , A. Napoli , A. Messina , F. Petruccione

We study a quantum spherically symmetric object which is based on radial plasma oscillations. Such a plasmoid is supposed to exist in a dense plasma containing electrons, ions, and neutral particles. The method of creation and annihilation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 Maxim Dvornikov

We construct a boundary integral representation for the low-Reynolds-number flow in a channel in the presence of freely-suspended particles (or droplets) of arbitrary size and shape. We demonstrate that lubrication theory holds away from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-17 Itzhak Fouxon , Zhouyang Ge , Luca Brandt , Alexander Leshansky

We investigate the emergent interactions between two active Brownian particles coupled by an attractive harmonic potential and in contact with a thermal reservoir. By analyzing the stationary distribution of their separation, we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-08 Ritwick Sarkar , Sreya Chatterjee , Urna Basu

Colloidal particles are not simple rigid particles, in general an isolated particle is a system with many degrees of freedom in its own right, e.g., the counterions around a charged colloidal particle.The behaviour of model colloidal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Richard P. Sear

We study numerically a model of non-aligning self-propelled particles interacting through steric repulsion, which was recently shown to exhibit active phase separation in two dimensions in the absence of any attractive interaction or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-03 Yaouen Fily , Silke Henkes , M. Cristina Marchetti

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

The dynamics of ideally polarizable spherical particles in concentrated suspensions under the effects of nonlinear electrokinetic phenomena is analysed using large-scale numerical simulations. Particles are assumed to carry no net charge…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-23 Siamak Mirfendereski , Jae Sung Park

We consider a massless scalar Bose field interacting with two particles, one of them infinitely heavy. Neither an infrared nor an ultraviolet cutoff is imposed. In case the charge of the particles is of the same sign and sufficiently small,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masao Hirokawa , Fumio Hiroshima , Herbert Spohn

The phenomenon of charged-particle oscillation in DC voltage biased plane-parallel conductors is discussed. Traditionally accepted mechanism for explaining the oscillatory behavior of charged particles in such system attributes the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Sung Nae Cho

We consider two particles interacting via a contact interaction that are constrained to a sphere, or $S^2$. We determine their spectrum to arbitrary precision and for arbitrary angular momentum. We show how the non-inertial frame leads to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Dominic Schuh , Thomas Luu

The long-range electrostatic interactions between molecules depend strongly on their relative orientation, which manifests as a rotational state dependence. Interactions between molecules in the same rotational quantum state are well-known…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Etienne F. Walraven , Tijs Karman

We study the thermodynamic behavior of nonpolar liquid mixtures in the vicinity of curved charged objects, such as electrodes or charged colloids. For small enough charge on the object, or equivalently, small potential, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gilad Marcus , Sela Samin , Yoav Tsori

It is shown that polarizable neutral systems can drift in crossed magnetic and electric fileds. The drift velocity is perpendicular to both fields, but contrary to the drif t velocity of a charged particle, it exists only, if fields vary in…

atom-ph · Physics 2009-10-28 A. P. Kasantsev , A. M. Dykhne , V. L. Pokrovsky

By modeling the particle as a two-dimensional oscillator with the natural angular frequency equal to the Zitterbewegung frequency, the expression of the gravitational force between two particles is obtained. Gravitational force is the…

General Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 Ion Simaciu , Zoltan Borsos , Viorel Drafta , Gheorghe Dumitrescu

Entanglement between two electrons belonging to an auto-ionization system and a neighbor two-level atom produced by the dipole-dipole interaction is studied. The entanglement is quantified using the quadratic negativity of a bipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Antonin Luks , Jan Perina , Wieslaw Leonski , Vlasta Perinova

We obtain by invariance arguments the relativistic and non-relativistic invariant dynamical equations of a classical model of a spinning electron. We apply the formalism to a particular classical model which satisfies Dirac's equation when…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Rivas