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The ordering of N equally charged particles (-e) moving in two dimensions and confined by a Coulomb potential, resulting from a displaced positive charge Ze is discussed. This is a classical model system for atoms. We obtain the…

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We calculate the spatial entanglement between two electrons trapped in a nanostructure for a broad class of confinement potentials, including single and double quantum dots, and core-shell quantum dot structures. By using a parametrized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Abdullah , J. P. Coe , I. D'Amico

Mutually repelling particles form spontaneously ordered clusters when forced into confinement. The clusters may adopt similar spatial arrangements even if the underlying particle interactions are contrastingly different. Here we demonstrate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-13 P. D. S. de Lima , R. De La Cour , K. Gaff , J. M. de Araújo , S. J. Cox , M. S. Ferreira , S. Hutzler

In a recent work, [1] the equilibrium of a cluster of charged dust particles mutually interacting with screened Coulomb force and radially confined by an externally applied electric field in a 2-D configuration was studied. It was shown…

Confined to small regions, quantum systems exhibit electronic and structural properties different from their free space behavior. In Coulomb 3-body problems, configurations of close proximity of identically charged particles are classically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 R. Vilela Mendes

The dynamics of a harmonically trapped three-dimensional Yukawa ball of charged dust particles immersed in plasma is investigated as function of external magnetic field and Coulomb coupling parameter using molecular dynamics simulation. It…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Hirakjyoti Sarma , Ritupan Sarmah , Nilakshi Das

The ground state configurations and the \lq{}\lq{}normal\rq{}\rq{} mode spectra of a $quasi$-one-dimensional (Q1D) binary system of charged particles interacting through a screened Coulomb potential are presented. The minimum energy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-06-10 W. P. Ferreira , J. C. N. Carvalho , P. W. S. Oliveira , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

We study by means of time-dependent numerical simulations the behavior of the entanglement stemming from the Coulomb scattering between two charged particles subject to a pulse of sinusoidal potential. We show that the splitting of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-04 Fabrizio Buscemi , Paolo Bordone , Andrea Bertoni

We study a system of few colloids confined in a small spherical cavity by event driven molecular dynamics simulations in the canonical ensemble. The colloidal particles interact through a short range square-well potential, which takes into…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-10 Iván Paganini , Claudio Pastorino , Ignacio Urrutia

Dynamics of the structured particles consisting of potentially interacting material points is considered in the framework of classical mechanics. Equations of interaction and motion of structured particles have been derived. The expression…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 V. M. Somsikov

We investigate the localization of charged particles by the image potential of spherical shells, such as fullerene buckyballs. These "spherical image states" exist within surface potentials formed by the competition between the attractive…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-16 Godfrey Gumbs , Antonios Balassis , Andrii Iurov , Paula Fekete

We report on a study of a classical, finite system of confined particles in two dimensions with a two-body repulsive interaction. We first develop a simple analytical method to obtain equilibrium configurations and energies for few…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Date , M. V. N. Murthy , Radhika Vathsan

A theoretical description for the radial density profile of a finite number of identical charged particles confined in a harmonic trap is developed for application over a wide range of Coulomb coupling (or, equivalently, temperatures) and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Wrighton , J. W. Dufty , H. Kählert , M. Bonitz

Critical parameters in three screened potentials, namely, Hulth\'en, Yukawa and exponential cosine screened Coulomb potential are reported. Accurate estimates of these parameters are given for each of these potentials, for all states having…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Amlan K. Roy

Jammed packings' mechanical properties depend sensitively on their detailed local structure. Here we provide a complete characterization of the pair correlation close to contact and of the force distribution of jammed frictionless spheres.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-15 Patrick Charbonneau , Eric I. Corwin , Giorgio Parisi , Francesco Zamponi

Charged (nano)particles confined in electrodynamic traps can evolve into strongly correlated Coulomb systems which are the subject of current investigation. Exciting physical phenomena associated to Coulomb systems are reported such as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Bogdan M. Mihalcea , Vladimir Filinov , Roman Syrovatka , Leonid Vasilyak

We determine the structure of charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions at low ionic strength over an extended range of particle volume fractions using a combination of light and small angle neutron scattering experiments. The variation of…

We study the motion of charged particles constrained to arbitrary two-dimensional curved surfaces but interacting in three-dimensional space via the Coulomb potential. To speed-up the interaction calculations, we use the parallel compute…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-12-07 Thomas Müller , Jörg Frauendiener

Quantum shape effect appears under the size-invariant shape transformations of strongly confined structures. Such a transformation distinctively influences the thermodynamic properties of confined particles. Due to their characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Alhun Aydin , Jonas Fransson , Altug Sisman

Coulomb plasmas crystallize in a number of physical systems, such as dusty plasmas, neutron star crusts, and white dwarf cores. The crystal structure of the one component and binary plasma has received significant attention in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-12 M. E. Caplan