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The intricate interplay between colloidal particle shape and precisely engineered interaction potentials has paved the way for the discovery of unprecedented crystal structures in both two and three dimensions. Here, we make use of…
We study the effect of electrostatic interactions on the distribution function of the end-to-end distance of a single polyelectrolyte chain in a rodlike configuration. We investigate the validity of the concept of electrostatic persistence…
We compute the entropic interactions between two colloidal spheres immersed in a dilute suspension of semi-flexible rods. Our model treats the semi-flexible rod as a bent rod at fixed angle, set by the rod contour and persistence lengths.…
Electrostatic interactions between macroions largely govern the equilibrium thermodynamic and dynamical properties of charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions and polyelectrolyte solutions. Predicting the properties of such complex,…
We propose a local, O(N) molecular dynamics algorithm for the simulation of charged systems. The long ranged Coulomb potential is generated by a propagating electric field that obeys modified Maxwell equations. On coupling the…
In this paper we study the electrostatic properties of `Janus' spheres with unequal charge densities on both hemispheres. We introduce a method to compare primitive-model Monte Carlo simulations of the ionic double layer with predictions of…
Using the model of interaction between two-level systems (TLS) and strain fields introduced in Phys. Rev. B 75, 064202 (2007), we calculate the TLS-TLS interaction. We particularize our calculations to amorphous materials and analyze the…
Pauli exchange-repulsion is the dominant short-range intermolecular interaction and it is an essential component of molecular force fields. Current approaches to modeling Pauli repulsion in molecular force fields often rely on over 20 atom…
In model independent way considered long-range interactions of the macroscopic objects under assumption that any particle of this objects interact with probe particle as $ A/r^n$. Also presented model-independent corrections to the Coulomb…
The analysis of complex fibrous systems or materials on the micro- and nanoscale, which have a high practical relevance for many technical or biological systems, requires accurate analytical descriptions of the adhesive and repulsive forces…
In this dissertation we analyzed the double-layer force interaction between two dielectric charged colloidal spheres of different radii immersed in a solution of ions in water and in thermal equilibrium. In the limit of low electrostatic…
We theoretically and experimentally investigate colloid-oil-water-interface interactions of charged, sterically stabilized, poly(methyl-methacrylate) colloidal particles dispersed in a low-polar oil (dielectric constant $\epsilon=5-10$)…
We use a variational wave function to calculate the energy of the interaction between external charges in the compact Abelian gauge theory in 2+1 dimensions with mixed action. Our variational wave functions preserve the compact gauge…
We propose a method to calculate dispersion interactions in a system composed of a one dimensional layering of finite thickness anisotropic and optically active slabs. The result is expressed within the algebra of 4x4 matrices and is…
We predict the nature (attractive or repulsive) and range (exponentially screened or long-range power law) of the electrostatic interactions of oppositely charged and planar plates as a function of the salt concentration and surface charge…
Strong short ranged positional correlations involving counterions can induce a net attractive force between negatively charged strands of DNA, and lead to the formation of ion pairs in dilute ionic solutions. But the long range of the…
We show that amphiphilic and colloidal systems with competing interactions can be described by the same Landau-Brazovskii functional. The functional is obtained by a systematic coarse-graining procedure applied tosystems with isotropic…
Machine learning models for the potential energy of multi-atomic systems, such as the deep potential (DP) model, make possible molecular simulations with the accuracy of quantum mechanical density functional theory, at a cost only…
Theory of long-range interactions between an atom in its ground S state and a linear molecule in a degenerate state with a non-zero projection of the electronic orbital angular momentum is presented. It is shown how the long-range…
Particle interactions are key elements of many dynamical systems. In the context of systems described by a Boltzmann equation, such interactions may be described by a collision integral, a multidimensional integral over the momentum-phase…