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We develop a free energy functional for an inhomogeneous system that contains both symmetry conserved and symmetry broken parts of the direct pair correlation function. These correlation functions are found by solving the Ornstein- Zernike…

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We consider a classical system of two-dimensional (2D) charged particles, which interact through a repulsive Yukawa potential $exp(-r/\lambda)/r$, confined in a parabolic channel which limits the motion of the particles in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 J. C. N. Carvalho , W. P. Ferreira , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

We study the zero-temperature phase diagram of bosons interacting via screened Coulomb (Yukawa) potential by means of the diffusion Monte Carlo method. The Yukawa potential is used as a model interaction in the neutron matter, dusty plasmas…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-06-05 O. N. Osychenko , G. E. Astrakharchik , F. Mazzanti , J. Boronat

Based on primitive model computer simulations with explicit microions, we calculate the effective interactions in a binary mixture of charged colloids with species $A$ and $B$ for different size and charge ratios. An optimal pairwise…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-12 Allahyarov Löwen

We show that a random interacting model exhibits solvable non-Fermi liquid behavior and exotic pairing behavior. This model, dubbed as the Yukawa-SYK model, describes the random Yukawa coupling between $M$ quantum dots each hosting $N$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-15 Yuxuan Wang

Particles dispersed in a liquid crystal above the nematic-isotropic phase transition are wetted by a surface-induced corona of paranematic order. Such coronas give rise to pronounced two-particle interactions. In this article, we report…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Paolo Galatola , Jean-Baptiste Fournier , Holger Stark

Pair potentials that are bounded at the origin provide an accurate description of the effective interaction for many systems of dissolved soft macromolecules (e.g., flexible dendrimers). Using numerical free-energy calculations, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-29 C. Speranza , S. Prestipino , G. Malescio , P. V. Giaquinta

Using a fundamental measure density functional theory we investigate both bulk and inhomogeneous systems of the binary non-additive hard sphere model. For sufficiently large (positive) non-additivity the mixture phase separates into two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-30 Paul Hopkins , Matthias Schmidt

A theoretical description of the radial density profile for charged particles with Yukawa interaction in a harmonic trap is described. At strong Coulomb coupling shell structure is observed in both computer simulations and experiments.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Henning Bruhn , Hanno Kählert , Torben Ott , Michael Bonitz , Jeffrey Wrighton , James Dufty

The possibility to induce demixing in a colloidal mixture by adding small polymers, or other equivalent depletant agents, is theoretically investigated. By use of Mean Field Theory, suitably generalized to deal with short range effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-28 Alberto Parola , Luciano Reatto

Patchy colloidal model with three and four equivalent patches, confined in the attractive random porous media, undergo re-entrant gas-liquid phase separation with the possibility for the liquid phase density to approach zero. This unusual…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-11 Taras Hvozd , Yurij V. Kalyuzhnyi , Vojko Vlachy , Peter T. Cummings

We study the density distribution of repulsive Yukawa particles confined by an external potential. In the weak coupling limit, we show that the mean-field theory is able to accurately account for the particle distribution. In the strong…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Matheus Girotto , Alexandre P. dos Santos , Thiago Colla , Yan Levin

The condition of unification of gauge couplings in the minimal supersymmetric standard model provides successful predictions for the weak mixing angle as a function of the strong gauge coupling and the supersymmetric threshold scale. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 M. Carena , S. Pokorski , M. Olechowski , C. E. M. Wagner

Dilute or semi-dilute solutions of non-intersecting self-avoiding walk (SAW) polymer chains are mapped onto a fluid of ``soft'' particles interacting via an effective pair potential between their centers of mass. This mapping is achieved by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 P. G. Bolhuis , A. A. Louis , J. P. Hansen , E. J. Meijer

We have used the density-functional theory to locate the freezing transitions and calculate the values of freezing parameters for a system of long elongated molecules which interact via the Gay-Berne pair potential. The pair correlation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pankaj Mishra , Jokhan Ram , Yashwant Singh

We apply a modified mean-field density functional theory to determine the phase behavior of binary mixtures of Stockmayer fluids whose spherical constituents interact according to Lennard-Jones (LJ) pair potentials with embedded pointlike…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Szalai , S. Dietrich

We introduce a simple model consisting of two or three coupled one-dimensional channels of particles with Yukawa interactions. For the two channel system, when an external drive is applied only to the top or primary channel, we find a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 C. Reichhardt , C. Bairnsfather , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Interfaces between demixed fluid phases of binary mixtures of hard platelets are investigated using density-functional theory. The corresponding excess free energy functional is calculated within a fundamental measure theory adapted to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-14 M. Bier , L. Harnau , S. Dietrich

We present a theoretical framework to investigate the microscopic structure of concentrated hard-sphere colloidal suspensions under strong shear flows by fully taking into account the boundary-layer structure of convective diffusion. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-03 Luca Banetta , Francesco Leone , Carmine Anzivino , Michael S. Murillo , Alessio Zaccone

We provide a quantitative and controlled analysis of the phase diagram of the the Yukawa-SYK model on a lattice, in the normal and superconducting states. We analyze the entire crossover from BCS/weak-coupling to Eliashberg/strong coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-01 Davide Valentinis , Gian Andrea Inkof , Jörg Schmalian