Yukawa particles in a confining potential
- Author(s)
- Matheus Girotto, Alexandre P. dos Santos, Thiago Colla, Yan Levin
- 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.
- Organisation(s)
- Computational and Soft Matter Physics
- External organisation(s)
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
- Journal
- Journal of Chemical Physics
- Volume
- 141
- No. of pages
- 5
- ISSN
- 0021-9606
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4885723
- Publication date
- 07-2014
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103006 Chemical physics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/a0b6fc91-d2ba-46dd-8b53-461e56d49050