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The geometry of the elementary charge is studied in the framework of the concept of space considered as a tessellation lattice ('tessellattice'), which has recently been developed by M. Bounias and the author. The descriptive-geometric…

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Volodymyr Krasnoholovets

A classical problem in acoustic (and electromagnetic) scattering concerns the evaluation of the Green's function for the Helmholtz equation subject to impedance boundary conditions on a half-space. The two principal approaches used for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Michael O'Neil , Leslie Greengard , Andras Pataki

Two-dimensional Born-Infeld electrostatic fields behaving as the superposition of two point-like charges in the linearized (Maxwellian) limit are worked out by means of a non-holomorphic mapping of the complex plane. The changes underwent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Rafael Ferraro , Maria Evangelina Lipchak

We derive analytical expressions for external fields of a relativistic bunch of charged particles with a circular and an elliptical cross section under different boundary conditions and interaction of the fields with an accelerator…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-03-16 B. B. Levchenko

We evaluate the electrostatic potential and the electrostatic field created by a point charge and an arbitrarly oriented electrical dipole placed near a grounded perfectly conducting sphere. Induced surface charge distributions as well as…

Physics Education · Physics 2013-04-18 F C Santos , A C Tort

We develop a systematic approach to calculating the electrostatic force between point charges in an arbitrary geometry with arbitrary boundary conditions. When the boundary is present, the simple expression for the force acting on a charge…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Silbergleit , Ilya Nemenman , Ilya Mandel

This letter announces and summarizes results obtained in arXiv:1111.5051 and considers several natural extensions. The aforementioned paper proposes a procedure to reconstruct coefficients in a second-order, scalar, elliptic equation from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-07 Guillaume Bal , Gunther Uhlmann

We show that in the grounded conducting sphere image problem, all the necessary information about the image charge can be found from a mirror equation and a magnification formula. Then, we propose a method to solve the image problem for an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-07-21 Kolahal Bhattacharya

I derive formulas for the electrostatic potential of a charge in or near a membrane modeled as one or more dielectric slabs lying between two semi-infinite dielectrics. One can use these formulas in Monte Carlo codes to compute the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-27 Kevin Cahill

We analytically examine the pair interaction for parallel, discrete helices of charge. Symmetry arguments allow for the energy to be decomposed into a sum of terms, each of which has an intuitive geometric interpretation. Truncated Fourier…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Jonathan Landy , Joseph Rudnick

In the study of colloidal, biological and electrochemical systems, it is customary to treat surfaces, macromolecules and electrodes as homogeneously charged. This simplified approach is proven successful in most cases, but fails to describe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-04 Ram M. Adar , David Andelman , Haim Diamant

Two-dimensional (2D) electronic materials are of significant technological interest due to their exceptional properties and broad applicability in engineering. The transition from nanoscale physics, that dictates their stable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Shoham Sen , Yang Wang , Timothy Breitzman , Kaushik Dayal

The third named author has been developing a theory of "higher" symplectic capacities. These capacities are invariant under taking products, and so are well-suited for studying the stabilized embedding problem. The aim of this note is to…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner , Richard Hind , Kyler Siegel

The issue of electric charges in interaction with partially reflective surfaces is addressed by means of field theoretic methods. It is proposed an enlarged Maxwell lagrangian, describing the electromagnetic field in the presence of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-02 F. E. Barone , F. A. Barone

In this work, we present an explanation of the electric charge quantization based on a semi-classical model of electrostatic fields. We claim that in electrostatics, an electric charge must be equal to a rational multiple of the elementary…

General Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 Kolahal Bhattacharya

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

In article the following tasks on computer modeling of electric fields are analyzed: 1) calculation of distribution of potential for the field created by two parallel plates and charged bodies in the non-uniform environment; 2) calculation…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-12-16 Robert V Mayer

Using techniques from geometry and complex analysis in their simplest form, we present a derivation of electric fields on surfaces with non-trivial topology. A byproduct of this analysis is an intuitive visualization of elliptic functions…

General Physics · Physics 2020-09-21 Spencer Tamagni , Costas Efthimiou

Image charge effect is a fundamental problem in electrostatics. However, a proper treatment at the continuum level for many-ion systems, such as electrolyte solutions or ionic liquids, remains an open theoretical question. Here, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-23 Tingtao Zhou , Dorian Bruch , Zhen-Gang Wang

A new class of exact solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell system is found in closed form. This is achieved by choosing a generalised form for one of the gravitational potentials and a particular form for the electric field intensity. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Thirukkanesh , S. D. Maharaj