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In this paper we analyze a two-dimensional discrete model of nearest-neighbour Lennard-Jones interactions under the microscopical constraint that points on a lattice triangle maintain their order. This can be understood as a microscopical…

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The dispersion energy between extended molecular chains (or equivalently infinite wires) with non-zero band gaps is generally assumed to be expressible as a pair-wise sum of atom-atom terms which decay as $R^{-6}$. Using a model system of…

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Since the early observation of nematic phases of disc-like clay colloids by Langmuir in 1938, the phase behaviour of such systems has resisted theoretical understanding. The main reason is that there is no satisfactory generalization for…

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We study non-linear adiabatic connection paths in density-functional theory using modified electron-electron interactions that perform a long-range/short-range separation of the Coulomb interaction. These adiabatic connections allows to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Julien Toulouse , Francois Colonna , Andreas Savin

In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. E 61, 2831 (2000)], Borstnik, Stark and Zumer have studied the stability of a colloidal dispersion of micron-sized spherical particles in the isotropic phase of a nematogenic material. Close to the nematic…

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A unitary transformation allows to remove redundant terms in the two-nucleon (2N) contact interaction at the fourth order (N3LO) in the low-energy expansion of Chiral Effective Field Theory. In so doing a three-nucleon (3N) interaction is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 L. Girlanda , E. Filandri , A. Kievsky , L. E. Marcucci , M. Viviani

The interaction between two spherical colloidal particles with degenerate planar anchoring in a nematic media is studied by numerically minimizing the bulk Landau-de Gennes and surface energy using a finite element method. We find that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-10-27 Mohammad Reza Mozaffari , Mehrtash Babadi , Jun-ichi Fukuda , Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi

Variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (VMC and DMC) methods with Slater-Jastrow-backflow trial wave functions are used to study the spin-polarized three-dimensional uniform electron fluid. We report ground state VMC and DMC energies…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-11 Sam Azadi , N. D. Drummond , Sam. M. Vinko

In this paper, we consider the one-dimensional interaction energy $\frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathbb{R}}(W*\rho)(x)d\rho(x) + \int_{\mathbb{R}}U(x)d\rho(x)$ where the interaction potential $W(x)= -\frac{|x|^b}{b},\,1\le b \le 2$ and the external…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Steven B. Damelin , Ruiwen Shu

We analyze a decomposition of the Coulomb electron-electron interaction into a long-range and a short-range part in the framework of density functional theory, deriving some scaling relations and the corresponding virial theorem. We study…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Julien Toulouse , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

The electrostatic interaction between colloidal particles trapped at the interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions is studied in the limit of small inter-particle distances. Within an appropriate model exact analytic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-07 Arghya Majee , Markus Bier , S. Dietrich

Ewald-parameter dependence of Coulomb interaction in ionic crystals was studied using a point-charge model. In the presence of the long-range interaction, the ion configuration breaks spherical symmetry of local potential and charge at each…

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We study the effective interaction between differently charged polyelectrolyte-colloid complexes in electrolyte solutions via Monte Carlo simulations. These complexes are formed when short and flexible polyelectrolyte chains adsorb onto…

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An effective potential is created for the dynamics of a test particle, which preserves dilatation symmetry for nonlinear static dilaton-Maxwell background. It is found that the central interaction in this theory is regular everywhere, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-19 Oleg Kechkin , Pavel Mosharev

We consider the simplest one-constant model, put forward by J. Ericksen, for nematic liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation. The equilibrium state is described by a director field $\mathbf{n}$ and its degree of orientation $s$,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Shawn W. Walker , Wujun Zhang

By using the recently generalized version of Newton Shell Theorem analytical equations are derived to calculate the electric interaction energy between two separated charged spheres surrounded outside and inside by electrolyte. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-26 István P. Sugár

The electrostatic interaction between pairs of spherical or macroscopically long, parallel cylindrical colloids trapped at fluid interfaces is studied theoretically for the case of small inter-particle separations. Starting from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-30 Arghya Majee , Markus Bier , S. Dietrich

We consider electrostatic interactions in two classes of nanostructures embedded in a three dimensional space: (1) helical nanotubes, and (2) thin films with uniform bending (i.e., constant mean curvature). Starting from the atomic scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Prashant K. Jha , Timothy Breitzman , Kaushik Dayal

We consider the interatomic van der Waals interaction energy between two neutral ground-state atoms moving in the vacuum space with the same uniform acceleration. We assume the acceleration orthogonal to their separation, so that their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 Antonio Noto , Roberto Passante

We are concerned with a system governing the evolution of the pressureless compressible Euler equations with Riesz interaction and damping in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ ($d\geq1$), where the interaction force is given by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Meiling Chi , Ling-Yun Shou , Jiang Xu