Strong electrostatic interactions in spherical colloidal systems

Details Strong electrostatic interactions in spherical colloidal systems Strong electrostatic interactions in spherical colloidal systems

2001-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0101263v2

Phys. Rev. E, VOL 64, 021405 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

30 pages and 17 PS figures. REVTEX. Minor changes. To appear in Phys Rev E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.64.021405

We investigate spherical macroions in the strong Coulomb coupling regime within the primitive model in salt-free environment. We first show that the ground state of an isolated colloid is naturally overcharged by simple electrostatic arguments illustrated by the Gillespie rule. We furthermore demonstrate that in the strong Coulomb coupling this mechanism leads to ionized states and thus to long range attractions between like-charged spheres. We use molecular dynamics simulations to study in detail the counterion distribution for one and two highly charged colloids for the ground state as well as for finite temperatures. We compare our results in terms of a simple version of a Wigner crystal theory and find excellent qualitative and quantitative agreement.

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