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The recently developed modified Donnan (mD) model provides a simple and useful description of the electrical double layer in microporous carbon electrodes, suitable for incorporation in porous electrode theory. By postulating an attractive…

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We explore the effect of steric interaction on the ionic density distribution near a charged hard wall. For weakly charged walls, small particles, and monovalent ions the mean-field Poisson-Boltzmann equation provides an excellent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-05 Derek Frydel , Yan Levin

Weyl semimetals are a class of topological materials that exhibit a bulk Hall effect due to time-reversal symmetry breaking. We show that for the idealized semi-infinite case, the Casimir force between two identical Weyl semimetals is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Justin H. Wilson , Andrew A. Allocca , Victor M. Galitski

The strong Coulomb interaction in 2D materials facilitates the formation of tightly bound excitons and charge-ordered phases of matter. A prominent example is the formation of a crystalline phase from free charges due to mutual Coulomb…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-16 Daniel Erkensten , Alexey Chernikov , Ermin Malic

We demonstrate that the static structure factor, momentum distribution and density distribution provide clear signatures of the emergence of Wigner crystal for the fermionic dipolar gas with strongly repulsive dipole-dipole interactions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-06 Zhihao Xu , Shu Chen

For like charged colloidal particles two mechanisms of attraction between them survive when the interparticle distance is larger than the Debye screening length. One of them is the conventional van der Waals attraction and the second one is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-08-25 T. Ocampo-Delgado , B. Ivlev

The electrostatic double layer force is key to determining the stability and self-assembly of charged colloids and many other soft matter systems. Fully understanding the attractive force between two like-charged surfaces remains a great…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-27 Nikhil R. Agrawal , Ravtej Kaur , Carlo Carraro , Rui Wang

We explore the effective long-range interaction of charged particles confined to a curved low-dimensional manifold using the example of a helical geometry. Opposite to the Coulomb interaction in free space the confined particles experience…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Peter Schmelcher

We study a dense colloidal suspension confined between two quasiparallel glass plates as a model system for a supercooled liquid in confined geometries. We directly observe the three-dimensional Brownian motion of the colloidal particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-01 Kazem V. Edmond , Carolyn R. Nugent , Eric R. Weeks

The concept of a local linear elastic strain field is commonly used in the metallurgical research community to approximate the collective effect of atomic displacements around crystalline defects. Here we show that the elastic strain field…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-27 Bryan VanSaders , Julia Dshemuchadse , Sharon C. Glotzer

We report a numerical investigation of two colloids immersed in a critical solvent, with the aim of quantifying the effective colloid-colloid interaction potential. By turning on an attraction between the colloid and the solvent particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-09-12 Nicoletta Gnan , Emanuela Zaccarelli , Francesco Sciortino

We study a classical system of identically charged counter-ions near a planar wall carrying a uniform surface charge density. The equilibrium statistical mechanics of the system depends on a single dimensionless coupling parameter. A new…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-21 I. Palaia , M. Trulsson , L. Samaj , E. Trizac

A simple model is presented for the appearance of attraction between two like charged polyions inside a polyelectrolyte solution. The polyions are modeled as rigid cylinders in a continuum dielectric solvent. The strong electrostatic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexandre Diehl , Humberto A. Carmona , Yan Levin

We implement molecular dynamics simulations in canonical ensemble to study the effect of confinement on a $2d$ crystal of point particles interacting with an inverse power law potential proportional to $r^{-12}$ in a narrow channel. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-30 M. Ebrahim Foulaadvand , Neda Ojaghlou

In this paper we continue the development of a model for strong interactions at high energy, based on two ingredients: CGC/saturation approach and the BFKL Pomeron. In our approach, the unknown mechanism of confinement of quarks and gluons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 E. Gotsman , E. Levin , U. Maor

A new modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation accounting for the finite size of the ions valid for realistic salt-free concentrated suspensions has been derived, extending the formalism developed for pure salt-free suspensions [Roa et al.,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-13 Rafael Roa , Félix Carrique , Emilio Ruiz-Reina

We calculate the effective force mediated by thermally excited capillary waves between spherical or disklike colloids trapped at a fluid interface. This Casimir type interaction is shown to depend sensitively on the boundary conditions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Lehle , M. Oettel , S. Dietrich

We predict topological electron crystals driven by the interplay of interlayer Coulomb attraction and topological miniband physics in bilayer graphene--Mott insulator heterostructures. Charge transfer creates a charge neutral, mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Wangqian Miao , Tianyu Qiao , Xue-Yang Song , Yinghai Xu , Yiwei Chen , Lei Wang , Xi Dai

We present an analytical approach to the strong coupling regime of similarly and highly charged plates in the presence of counter-ions. The procedure is physically transparent and based on an exact expansion around the ground state formed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-23 L. Samaj , E. Trizac

We study an interacting system of $N$ classical particles on a line at thermal equilibrium. The particles are confined by a harmonic trap and repelling each other via pairwise interaction potential that behaves as a power law $\propto…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-10 Sanaa Agarwal , Abhishek Dhar , Manas Kulkarni , Anupam Kundu , Satya N. Majumdar , David Mukamel , Gregory Schehr