Binding of Similarly Charged Plates: A Global Analysis

Details Binding of Similarly Charged Plates: A Global Analysis Binding of Similarly Charged Plates: A Global Analysis

2000-09-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0009377v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

Similarly and highly charged plates in the presence of multivalent counter ions attract each other, leading to electrostatically bound states. Using Monte-Carlo simulations we obtain the inter-plate pressure in the global parameter space. The equilibrium plate separation, where the pressure changes from attractive to repulsive, exhibits a novel unbinding transition. A systematic and asymptotically exact strong-coupling field-theory yields the bound state from a competition between counter-ion entropy and electrostatic attraction, in agreement with simple scaling arguments.

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