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Dielectric Response of a Polarizable System with Quenched Disorder
Physical Review E
  • Xueyu Song, Iowa State University
  • David Chandler, University of California - Berkeley
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
11-1-2000
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevE.62.7949
Abstract

We present and analyze a lattice model of a disordered dielectric material. In the model, the local polarizability is a quenched statistical variable. Using a reaction field approach, the dielectric response of the model can be cast in terms of an effective Hamiltonian for a finite primary system coupled to its effective average medium determined self-consistently. A real space renormalization group analysis is carried out by recursively increasing the size of the primary system. The analysis determines the length scale dependence of the local polarizability distribution. For the case of isotropic disorder considered in this paper, we show that the width of the distribution decays algebraically with increasing lattice spacing. We also compute the distribution of solvation and reorganization energies pertinent to kinetics of electron transfer.

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This article is from Physical Review E 62 (2000): 7949, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.62.7949. Posted with permission.

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American Physical Society
Language
en
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Citation Information
Xueyu Song and David Chandler. "Dielectric Response of a Polarizable System with Quenched Disorder" Physical Review E Vol. 62 Iss. 6 (2000) p. 7949 - 7956
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/xueyu-song/22/