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Unpublished Paper
Computing Counterion Densities at Intermediate Coupling
Physical Review E (2006)
  • Christian Santangelo
Abstract

By decomposing the Coulomb interaction into a long-distance component appropriate for mean-field theory, and a non-mean-field short distance component, we compute the counterion density near a charged surface for all values of the counterion coupling parameter. A modified strong-coupling expansion that is manifestly finite at all coupling strengths is used to treat the short-distance component. We find a nonperturbative correction related to the lateral counterion correlations that modifies the density at intermediate coupling.

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Publication Date
2006
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Prepublished version downloaded from ArXiv. Published version is located at http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.73.041512
Citation Information
Christian Santangelo. "Computing Counterion Densities at Intermediate Coupling" Physical Review E (2006)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christian_santangelo/12/