Physics – Chemical Physics
Scientific paper
2008-08-17
Physics
Chemical Physics
10 pp, 10 figs
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.78.041206
We present the results of numerical simulations of fluctuations of the electrostatic potential and electric field inside cavities created in the fluid of dipolar hard spheres. We found that the thermodynamics of polar solvation dramatically changes its regime when the cavity size becomes about 4-5 times larger than the size of the liquid particle. The range of small cavities can be reasonably understood within the framework of current solvation models. On the contrary, the regime of large cavities is characterized by a significant softening of the cavity interface resulting in a decay of the fluctuation variances with the cavity size much faster than anticipated by both the continuum electrostatics and microscopic theories. For instance, the variance of potential decays with the cavity size $R_0$ approximately as $1/R_0^{4-6}$ instead of the $1/R_0$ scaling expected from standard electrostatics. Our results suggest that cores of non-polar molecular assemblies in polar liquids lose solvation strength much faster than is traditionally anticipated.
Martin Daniel R.
Matyushov Dmitry V.
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