Yukawa particles in a confining potential
Statistical Mechanics
2015-06-19 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
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 coupling limit, the correlations between the particles become important and the mean-field theory fails. For strongly correlated systems, we construct a density functional theory which provides an excellent description of the particle distribution, without any adjustable parameters.
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@article{arxiv.1405.6129,
title = {Yukawa particles in a confining potential},
author = {Matheus Girotto and Alexandre P. dos Santos and Thiago Colla and Yan Levin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.6129},
year = {2015}
}
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