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We present a hybrid method based on a combination of quantum/classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and a mod el Hamiltonian approach to describe charge transport through bio-molecular wires with variable lengths in presence o f a…

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The response of a model micro-electrochemical system to a time-dependent applied voltage is analyzed. The article begins with a fresh historical review including electrochemistry, colloidal science, and microfluidics. The model problem…

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A kinetic model of the electron transfer at the electrode / electrolyte solution interface is developed, implemented in a Monte Carlo framework, and applied to simulate this process in idealised systems consisting of the primitive model of…

In the molecular dynamics calculations for the free energy of ions and ionic molecules, we often encounter wet charged molecular systems where electrical neutrality condition is broken. This causes a problem in the evaluation of…

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We study the electrophoretic flow of suspensions of charged colloids with a mesoscopic method that allows to model generic experimental conditions. We show that for highly charged colloids their electrophoretic mobility increases…

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In recent years, constant applied potential molecular dynamics has allowed to study the structure and dynamics of the electrochemical double-layer of a large variety of nanoscale capacitors. Nevertheless it remained impossible to simulate…

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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to determine the diffusion coefficients, electrophoretic mobilities and electrical conductivity of a charged colloidal suspension in the salt-free regime as a function of the colloid charge. The…

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Electrolyte solutions play an important role in energy storage devices, whose performance highly relies on the electrokinetic processes at sub-micron scales.\ Although fluctuations and stochastic features become more critical at small…

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Born-Oppenheimer dynamics is shown to provide an accurate approximation of time-independent Schr\"odinger observables for a molecular system with an electron spectral gap, in the limit of large ratio of nuclei and electron masses, without…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-21 Christian Bayer , Håkon Hoel , Petr Plecháč , Anders Szepessy , Raúl Tempone

At mesoscopic scales electrolyte solutions are modeled by the fluctuating generalized Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations [J.-P. P\'eraud et al., Phys. Rev. F, 1(7):074103, 2016]. However, at length and time scales larger than the Debye…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Aleksandar Donev , Andrew J. Nonaka , Changho Kim , Alejandro L. Garcia , John B. Bell

The interplay of electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom presents an outstanding problem in condensed matter physics and chemistry. Computational challenges arise especially for large systems, long time scales, in nonequilibrium, or in…

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We introduce an efficient description of electrodes, characterized by their Thomas-Fermi screening length lTF inside the metal, for Brownian dynamics (BD) simulations of capacitors. Within a Born-Oppenheimer approximation for the electron…

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A new algorithm for efficient and fully time-reversible integration of first-principles molecular dynamics based on orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) is presented. The algorithm adapts to this nontrivial case the recently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-21 Alessandro Coretti , Taylor J. Baird , Rodolphe Vuilleumier , Sara Bonella

Molecular dynamics is a powerful tool for studying the thermodynamics and kinetics of complex molecular events. However, these simulations can rarely sample the required time scales in practice. Transition path sampling overcomes this…

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Lithium-ion batteries are used to store energy in electric vehicles. Physical models based on electro-chemistry accurately predict the cell dynamics, in particular the state of charge. However, these models are nonlinear partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Sepideh Afshar , Kirsten Morris , Amir Khajepour

We study charged hydrodynamics in a periodic lattice background. Fluctuations are Bloch waves rather than single momentum Fourier modes. At boundaries of the unit cell where hydrodynamic fluctuations are formally degenerate with their…

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Seemingly unrelated experiments such as electrolyte transport through nanotubes, nano-scale electrochemistry, NMR relaxometry and Surface Force Balance measurements, all probe electrical fluctuations: of the electric current, the charge and…