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The Poisson Boltzmann equation is known for its success in describing the Debye layer that arises from the charge separation phenomenon at the silica/water interface. However, by treating only the mobile ionic charges in the liquid, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-30 Maijia Liao , Li Wan , Shixin Xu , Chun Liu , Ping Sheng

Kinetic theory of nonlinear current response to an external field is developed for mesoscopic normal metal rings threaded by a magnetic flux. General expressions for direct current (DC) are derived for a non-equilibrium regime. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. I. Yudson , V. E. Kravtsov

The interaction force between likely charged particles/surfaces is usually repulsive due to the Coulomb interaction. However, the counterintuitive like-charge attraction in electrolytes has been frequently observed in experiments, which has…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-08 Pei Liu , Manman Ma , Zhenli Xu

A nonlinear kinetic equation for nonrelativistic quantum plasma with electromagnetic interaction of particles is obtained in the Hartree's mean-field approximation. It is cast in a convenient form of Vlasov-Boltzmann-type equation with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-11-30 Y. O. Tyshetskiy , S. V. Vladimirov , R. Kompaneets

The transport of excess electrons in liquid argon driven out of equilibrium by an applied electric field is revisited using a multi-term solution of Boltzmann's equation together with ab initio liquid phase cross-sections calculated using…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-04 G. J. Boyle , R. P. McEachran , D. G. Cocks , R. D. White

The generation of nonclassical light states bears a paramount importance in quantum optics and is largely relying on the interaction between intense laser pulses and nonlinear media. Recently, electron beams, such as those used in ultrafast…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-23 Valerio Di Giulio , F. Javier García de Abajo

We investigate active electrolytes within the mean-field level of description. The focus is on how the double-layer structure of passive, thermalized charges is affected by active dynamics of all constituting ions. One feature of active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-23 Derek Frydel , Rudolf Podgornik

Using Poisson-Boltzmann equation and linear response theory, we derive an effective interaction potential due to a fixed charge distribution in a solution containing polyelectrolytes and point salt. We obtain an expression for the effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-08 Sandipan Dutta , and Y. S. Jho

Numerical studies of ionic motion through solid electrolytes commonly involve static nudged-elastic band (NEB) methods or costly \emph{ab initio} molecular dynamics (AIMD). Building on a time-local model of current carrier-electrolyte…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-10 Aleksandr Rodin , Ben Andrew Olsen , Andrey Ustyuzhanin , Artem Maevskiy

We investigate the effect of excluded volume interactions on the electrolyte distribution around a charged macroion. First, we introduce a criterion for determining when hard-core effects should be taken into account beyond standard mean…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Antypov , M. Barbosa , C. Holm

This work is concerned with the stationary Poisson--Nernst--Planck equation with a large parameter which describes a huge number of ions occupying an electrolytic region. Firstly, we focus on the model with a single specie of positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Jhih-Hong Lyu , Chiun-Chang Lee , Tai-Chia Lin

A variational approach is used to develop a robust numerical procedure for solving the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation. Following Maggs et al., we construct an appropriate constrained free energy functional, such that its…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-29 M. Baptista , R. Schmitz , B. Duenweg

Born-Infeld nonlinear electrodynamics with point singularities having both electric and magnetic charges are considered. Problem of interaction between the associated soliton dyon solutions is investigated. For the case of long-range…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Alexander A. Chernitskii

The goal of this article is to investigate the dynamics of semi-relativistic or non-relativistic charged particles in interaction with a scalar meson field. Our main contribution is the derivation of the classical dynamics of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Shahnaz Farhat

We derive the spin Boltzmann equations for spin-1/2 fermions in a non-relativistic model with four-fermion contact interaction which conserves spin degrees of freedom. A great advantage of the model is that the spin matrix elements in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-07 Wen-Bo Dong , Yi-Liang Yin , Qun Wang

A path integral approach has been generalized for the non-relativistic electron charge transfer processes. The charge transfer - the capture of an electron by an ion passing another atom or more generally the problem of rearrangement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Laskin , I. Tomski

A non-equilibrium plasma was studied using classical electrodynamic field theory. Non-linear interaction terms contribute to a finite lifetime for the dressed electrodynamic field. The lifetime exhibits a $\sim n^{-1} T_{e}^{3/2}…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shirish M. Chitanvis

The motto of this paper is: Let's face Bose-Einstein condensation through nonlinear dynamics. We do this by choosing variational forms of the condensate wave functions (of given symmetry classes), which convert the Bose-Einstein condensates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-12 G. Wunner , H. Cartarius , T. Fabčič , P. Köberle , J. Main , T. Schwidder

When an electrically charged system is subjected to the action of an electromagnetic field, it responds by generating an electrical current. In the case of a multicomponent plasma other effects, the so called cross effects, influence the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. S. Garcia-Colin , A. L. Garcia-Perciante , A. Sandoval-Villalbazo

We study, using Monte Carlo simulations, the interaction between infinite heterogeneously charged surfaces inside an electrolyte solution. The surfaces are overall neutral with quenched charged domains. An average over the quenched disorder…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-12 Amin Bakhshandeh , Alexandre P. dos Santos , Alexandre Diehl , Yan Levin