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The dielectric response and structural properties of finite-temperature electron liquids are central to accurately describing the physical behavior of electronic systems. This study presents a robust analytical model for the static…

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Understanding the dynamic behavior of polar fluids is essential for modeling complex systems such as electrolytes and biological media. In this work, we develop and apply a Stochastic Density Functional Theory (SDFT) framework to describe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-23 Sleeba Varghese , Pierre Illien , Benjamin Rotenberg

We investigate in detail the initial susceptibility, magnetization curves, and microstructure of ferrofluids in various concentration and particle dipole moment ranges by means of molecular dynamics simulations. We use the Ewald summation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 Zuowei Wang , Christian Holm , Hanns Walter Müller

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) has opened new perspectives for the investigation of strongly correlated electron systems and greatly improved our understanding of correlation effects in models and materials. In contrast to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-16 Dieter Vollhardt

Classical density-functional theory provides an efficient alternative to molecular dynamics simulations for understanding the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous fluids. However, application of density-functional theory to multi-site…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 Ravishankar Sundararaman , T. A. Arias

Fundamental understanding of interatomic forces in molecules must emerge from quantum mechanics, yet widely used empirical force fields rely on simplified mechanistic approximations that often fail to capture the complexity of many-body…

We generalize the predictions for attractions between over-all neutral surfaces induced by charge fluctuations/correlations to non-uniform systems that include dielectric discontinuities, as is the case for mixed charged lipid membranes in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Rebecca Menes , Philip Pincus , Bean Stein

Computer simulations are used to investigate the response of a charged colloid and its surrounding microion cloud to an external electric field. Both static fields (DC) and alternating fields (AC) are considered. A mesoscopic simulation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-07-19 Jiajia Zhou , Roman Schmitz , Burkard Duenweg , Friederike Schmid

We discuss several aspects of the dielectric response theory application to the density functional theory. This field has been an unceasing source of confusion during several decades. The most frequent reasons for this confusion are (a)…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 I. I. Mazin , R. E. Cohen

Electrohydrodynamic flows of weak electrolytes at the nanoscale are significantly influenced by the molecular structure of water-like polar solvents within the electric double layer (EDL). Moreover, unlike in microfluidics, at these length…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-16 Pramodt Srinivasula

The self consistent version of the density functional theory (DFT) is presented, which allows to calculate the ground state and dynamic properties of finite multi-electron systems such as atoms, molecules and clusters. The exact functional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ya. Amusia , V. R. Shaginyan

We investigate theoretically the phase diagram of an insoluble charged surfactant monolayer in contact with a semi-dilute polyelectrolyte solution (of opposite charge). The polyelectrolytes are assumed to have long-range and attractive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-19 Adi Shafir , David Andelman

The Polarizable Continuum Model (PCM) can be used in conjunction with Density Functional Theory (DFT) and its time-dependent extension (TDDFT) to simulate the electronic and optical properties of molecules and nanoparticles immersed in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 Alain Delgado , Stefano Corni , Stefano Pittalis , Carlo Andrea Rozzi

We study the variation of the dielectric response of a dielectric liquid (e.g. water) when a salt is added to the solution. Employing field-theoretical methods we expand the Gibbs free-energy to first order in a loop expansion and calculate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-06 Amir Levy , David Andelman , Henri Orland

There is a long-standing question about the molecular configuration of interfacial water molecules in the proximity of solid surfaces, particularly carbon atoms which play a crucial role in electrochemistry and biology. In this study, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-03 Iman Ahmadabadi , Ali Esfandiar , Ali Hassanali , Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi

Recent experiments reporting a very low dielectric permittivity for nanoconfined water have renewed the interest to the structure and dielectric properties of water in narrow gaps. Here, we describe such systems with a minimal…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Geoffrey Monet , Fernando Bresme , Alexei Kornyshev , Hélène Berthoumieux

Understanding the local structure of water at the interfaces of metallic electrodes is a key problem in aqueous-based electrochemistry. Nevertheless, a realistic simulation of such setup is challenging, particularly when the electrodes are…

A ubiquitous approach to obtain transferable machine learning-based models of potential energy surfaces for atomistic systems is to decompose the total energy into a sum of local atom-centred contributions. However, in many systems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Jack Thomas , William J. Baldwin , Gábor Csányi , Christoph Ortner

In the first two papers in this series, we developed new shifted potential (SP), gradient shifted force (GSF), and Taylor shifted force (TSF) real-space methods for multipole interactions in condensed phase simulations. Here, we discuss the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-18 Madan Lamichhane , Thomas Parsons , Kathie E. Newman , J. Daniel Gezelter

A novel energy minimization formulation of electrostatics that allows computation of the electrostatic energy and forces to any desired accuracy in a system with arbitrary dielectric properties is presented. An integral equation for the…

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