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Implicit electron-density solvation models based on joint density-functional theory offer a computationally efficient solution to the problem of calculating thermodynamic quantities of solvated systems from firstprinciples quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-02-12 Deniz Gunceler , T. A. Arias

Implicit solvation is an effective, highly coarse-grained approach in atomic-scale simulations to account for a surrounding liquid electrolyte on the level of a continuous polarizable medium. Originating in molecular chemistry with finite…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Stefan Ringe , Nicolas G. Hörmann , Harald Oberhofer , Karsten Reuter

We present LayerPCM, an extension of the polarizable-continuum model coupled to real-time time-dependent density-functional theory for an efficient and accurate description of the electrostatic interactions between molecules and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-17 Jannis Krumland , Gabriel Gil , Stefano Corni , Caterina Cocchi

We derive an equation capable of treating both the electrostatic and non-electrostatic interactions in the charged liquids. The equation derived is a complex version of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation, in which the non-electrostatic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-12 Li Wan

We study a model Coulomb fluid consisting of dipolar solvent molecules of finite extent generalizing the point-like Dipolar Poisson-Boltzmann model (DPB) previously introduced by Coalson and Duncan (J. Phys. Chem 100, 2612 (1996)) and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-18 Sahin Buyukdagli , Ralf Blossey

A novel dielectric scheme is proposed for strongly coupled electron liquids that handles quantum mechanical effects beyond the random phase approximation level and treats electronic correlations within the integral equation theory of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-12 Panagiotis Tolias , Federico Lucco Castello , Tobias Dornheim

Accurate modelling of electrostatic interactions and charge transfer is fundamental to computational chemistry, yet most machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) rely on local atomic descriptors that cannot capture long-range…

A new protocol for linearization of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation is proposed and the resultant electrostatic equation coincides formally with the Debye-Huckel equation, the solution of which is well known for many electrostatic problems.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 R. Tsekov

Quantum impurity models describe an atom or molecule embedded in a host material with which it can exchange electrons. They are basic to nanoscience as representations of quantum dots and molecular conductors and play an increasingly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-09 Emanuel Gull , Andrew J. Millis , Alexander I. Lichtenstein , Alexey N. Rubtsov , Matthias Troyer , Philipp Werner

Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory is the classic approach to soft matter electrostatics which has been applied to numerous problems of physical chemistry and biophysics. Its essential limitations are the neglect of correlation effects and of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-03 Sahin Buyukdagli , Ralf Blossey

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

Classical polarizable approaches have become the gold standard for simulating complex systems and processes in the condensed phase. These methods describe intrinsically dissipative polarizable media, requiring a formal definition within the…

Treating water as a linearly responding dielectric continuum on molecular length scales allows very simple estimates of solvation structure and thermodynamics for charged and polar solutes. While this approach can successfully account for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-07 Stephen J. Cox , Kranthi K. Mandadapu , Phillip L. Geissler

We study the geometric particle-in-cell methods for an electrostatic hybrid plasma model. In this model, ions are described by the fully kinetic equations, electron density is determined by the Boltzmann relation, and space-charge effects…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Yingzhe Li

We present a multiscale atomistic-to-continuum method for ionic crystals with defects. Defects often play a central role in ionic and electronic solids, not only to limit reliability, but more importantly to enable the functionalities that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 Jason Marshall , Kaushik Dayal

Understanding the response of the surface of metallic solids to external electric field sources is crucial to characterize electrode-electrolyte interfaces. Continuum electrostatics offer a simple description of the induced charge density…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Giovanni Pireddu , Laura Scalfi , Benjamin Rotenberg

A new computational method is presented for study suspensions of charged soft particles undergoing fluctuating hydrodynamic and electrostatic interactions. The proposed model is appropriate for polymers, proteins and porous particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-14 Juan P. Hernandez-Ortiz , Juan J. de Pablo

We consider in this paper random batch interacting particle methods for solving the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations, and thus the Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation as the equilibrium, in the external unbounded domain. To justify the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Lei Li , Jian-Guo Liu , Yijia Tang

Electrostatic correlations and variable permittivity of electrolytes are essential for exploring many chemical and physical properties of interfaces in aqueous solutions. We propose a continuum electrostatic model for the treatment of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-23 Manman Ma , Zhenli Xu

Electrostatic forces play many important roles in molecular biology, but are hard to model due to the complicated interactions between biomolecules and the surrounding solvent, a fluid composed of water and dissolved ions. Continuum model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Jaydeep P. Bardhan , Matthew G. Knepley