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Anions generally associate more favorably with the air-water interface than cations. In addition to solute size and polarizability, the intrinsic structure of the unperturbed interface has been discussed as an important contributor to this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-25 Stephen J. Cox , Dayton G. Thorpe , Patrick R. Shaffer , Phillip L. Geissler

We study ionic liquids interacting with electrified interfaces. The ionic fluid is modeled as a Coulomb lattice gas. We compare the ionic density profiles calculated using a popular modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation with the explicit…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-21 Matheus Girotto , Thiago Colla , Alexandre P. dos Santos , Yan Levin

We calculate analytically the forces between two solvophobic solutes, considering a model system. We show that the effective interaction forces between two solvophobic solutes, mediated by the solvent, is attractive for short ranges, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-01 J. Chakrabarti , Suman Dutta

The long-range contribution to dispersion forces is known to have a major impact on the properties of inhomogeneous fluids, and its correct treatment is increasingly recognized as being a necessary requirement to avoid cutoff-related…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-13 Marcello Sega , Christoph Dellago

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we reveal emergent properties of hydrated electrode interfaces that while molecular in origin are integral to the behavior of the system across long times scales and large length scales. Specifically,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 David T. Limmer , Adam P. Willard

The results of molecular dynamics simulations of the properties of water in an aqueous ionic solution close to an interface with a model metallic electrode are described. In the simulations the electrode behaves as an ideally polarizable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-09 Adam P. Willard , Stewart K. Reed , Paul A. Madden , David Chandler

We study the asymptotic long-range behavior of the time-dependent correlation function of the surface charge density induced on the interface between two media of distinct dielectric functions which are in thermal equilibrium with one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-26 Ladislav Samaj

Strong field ionization provides a unique mean to address complex dynamics of an electron in competing Coulomb and laser fields. Recent streak camera experiment (K\"ubel, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 183201) analyzed asymmetries in the…

We investigate the role of the Coulomb interaction in strong field processes. We find that the Coulomb field of the ion makes its presence known even in highly intense laser fields, in contrast to the assumptions of the strong field…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Jonathan Dubois , Simon Berman , Cristel Chandre , Turgay Uzer

A binary mixture of oppositely charged components confined to a plane such as cationic and anionic lipid bilayers may exhibit local segregation. The relative strength of the net short range interactions, which favors macroscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Sharon M. Loverde , Yury S. Velichko , Monica Olvera de la Cruz

One of the long standing challenges in molecular simulation is the description of interfaces. On the molecular length scale, finite size effects significantly influence the properties of the interface such as its interfacial tension, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Stephan Werth , Sergey Lishchuk , Martin Horsch , Hans Hasse

Machine learning models for the potential energy of multi-atomic systems, such as the deep potential (DP) model, make possible molecular simulations with the accuracy of quantum mechanical density functional theory, at a cost only…

We investigate the statistical mechanics of an inhomogeneous Coulomb fluid composed of charged particles with static polarizability. We derive the weak- and the strong-coupling approximations and evaluate the partition function in a planar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-22 Vincent Démery , David S. Dean , Rudolf Podgornik

The structure of an aqueous solution of sodium chloride at a planar electrode is investigated by integral equation techniques. With the central force water model the aqueous electrolyte is modelled as a mixture of sodium and chloride ions…

chem-ph · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Vossen , F. Forstmann

A crucial aspect in the simulation of electrochemical interfaces consists in treating the distribution of electronic charge of electrode materials that are put in contact with an electrolyte solution. Recently, it has been shown how a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-16 Andrea Grisafi , Mathieu Salanne

We show that finite-range alternatives to the standard long-range BKS pair potential for silica might be used in molecular dynamics simulations. We study two such models that can be efficiently simulated since no Ewald summation is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antoine Carré , Ludovic Berthier , Juergen Horbach , Simona Ispas , Walter Kob

The Poisson-Boltzmann mean-field description of ionic solutions has been successfully used in predicting charge distributions and interactions between charged macromolecules. While the electrostatic model of charged fluids, on which the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-04-22 Dan Ben-Yaakov , David Andelman , Daniel Harries , Rudi Podgornik

In principle, the answer to the posed titular question is undoubtedly 'yes.' But in practice, requisite reference data for homogeneous systems have been obtained with a treatment of intermolecular interactions that is different from that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-02 Dominic Atherton , Angelos Michaelides , Stephen J. Cox

We study, using Density Functional theory and Monte Carlo simulations, aqueous electrolyte solutions between charged infinite planar surfaces, in a contact with a bulk salt reservoir. In agreement with recent experimental observations [Z.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-21 Thiago Colla , Matheus Girotto , Alexandre P. dos Santos , Yan Levin

The electrostatic interaction between two non-identical, moderately charged colloids situated in close proximity of each other at a fluid interface is studied. By resorting to a well-justified model system, this problem is analytically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-30 Arghya Majee , Timo Schmetzer , Markus Bier