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A uniformly charged circular disk with an anisotropic Coulomb interaction potential
Chemistry & Physics Faculty Publications
  • Orion Ciftja, Prairie View A and M University
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Article
Publication Date
9-1-2020
Abstract

We consider a uniformly charged circular disk containing elementary charges that interact with an anisotropic Coulomb interaction potential. Such an anisotropic Coulomb interaction potential has been recently considered within the framework of a two-dimensional system of electrons in the quantum Hall regime. The anisotropy of the potential is introduced by a phenomenological parameter that can be tuned continuously as to incorporate the standard isotropic Coulomb interaction potential as a special case. The energy of the uniformly charged circular disk is calculated exactly for the given anisotropic interaction potential as a function of the anisotropy parameter. The results obtained are related to electrostatic problems that involve uniformly charged flat elliptical plates and may be useful to understand finite two-dimensional systems of electrons in the quantum Hall regime in which all point charges interact with the anisotropic Coulomb interaction potential presently considered.

Citation Information
Orion Ciftja. "A uniformly charged circular disk with an anisotropic Coulomb interaction potential" (2020)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/orion-ciftja/5/