Electric field inside a "Rossky cavity" in uniformly polarized water

Details Electric field inside a "Rossky cavity" in uniformly polarized water Electric field inside a "Rossky cavity" in uniformly polarized water

2011-06-30

arxiv.org/abs/1106.6118v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

9 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

Electric field produced inside a solute by a uniformly polarized liquid is strongly affected by dipolar polarization of the liquid at the interface. We show, by numerical simulations, that the electric "cavity" field inside a hydrated non-polar solute does not follow the predictions of standard Maxwell's electrostatics of dielectrics. Instead, the field inside the solute tends, with increasing solute size, to the limit predicted by the Lorentz virtual cavity. The standard paradigm fails because of its reliance on the surface charge density at the dielectric interface determined by the boundary conditions of the Maxwell dielectric. The interface of a polar liquid instead carries a preferential in-plane orientation of the surface dipoles thus producing virtually no surface charge. The resulting boundary conditions for electrostatic problems differ from the traditional recipes, affecting the microscopic and macroscopic fields based on them. We show that relatively small differences in cavity fields propagate into significant differences in the dielectric constant of an ideal mixture. The slope of the dielectric increment of the mixture versus the solute concentration depends strongly on which polarization scenario at the interface is realized. A much steeper slope found in the case of Lorentz polarization also implies a higher free energy penalty for polarizing such mixtures.

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