Quasi-universality in mixed salt-free counterions systems

M. Trulsson 1 Ladislav Šamaj 2 E. Trizac 1

EPL – Europhysics Letters, European Physical Society/EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/IOP Publishing, 2017, 118 (1), pp.16001

The screening of plate-plate interactions by counterions is an age-old problem. We revisit this classic question when counterions exhibit a distribution of charges. While it is expected that the long-distance regime of interactions is universal, the behaviour of the inter-plate pressure at smaller distances should a priori depend rather severely on the nature of the ionic mixture screening the plate charges. We show that is not the case, and that for comparable Coulombic couplings, different systems exhibit a quasi-universal equation of state.

  • 1. LPTMS – Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques
  • 2. INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS – SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Physics Dubraska cesta 9, 84228 Bratislava, Slovaquie

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