Screening in Yukawa fluid mixtures

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2006-06-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0606718v1

Phys. Rev. E 74 010402 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.74.010402

The effective pair potential between mesoscopic charged particles in a neutralising background medium takes a Yukawa form $\exp(-\lambda r)/r$ with screening length $\lambda^{-1}$. We consider a dilute suspension of such Yukawa particles dispersed in a solvent with correlation length $\xi<\lambda^{-1}$ and show that the Yukawa interaction is `screened' if the pair potentials between solvent particles exhibit Yukawa decay with the same screening length $\lambda^{-1}$. However, if the solvent pair potentials are shorter ranged than the solute Yukawa potentials, then the effective potential between pairs of solute particles is `unscreened', i.e. the effective potential between the solute particles is equal to the bare potential at large particle separations.

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