Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2010-03-17
Phys. Rev. E 82 (2010) 011402
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
Matches version accepted for publication. New refs. added, misprints corrected in figs.6,8,9,10
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.82.011402
We investigate the dynamics of colloids at a fluid interface driven by attractive capillary interactions. At submillimeter length scales, the capillary attraction is formally analogous to two-dimensional gravity. In particular it is a non-integrable interaction and it can be actually relevant for collective phenomena in spite of its weakness at the level of the pair potential. We introduce a mean-field model for the dynamical evolution of the particle number density at the interface. For generic values of the physical parameters the homogeneous distribution is found to be unstable against large-scale clustering driven by the capillary attraction. We also show that for the instability to be observable, the appropriate values for the relevant parameters (colloid radius, surface charge, external electric field, etc.) are experimentally well accessible. Our analysis contributes to current studies of the structure and dynamics of systems governed by long-ranged interactions and points towards their experimental realizations via colloidal suspensions.
Dietrich Sarah
Dominguez Alvaro
Oettel Martin
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