Binding of Similarly Charged Plates: A Global Analysis

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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.
4 pages, 4 figures

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Soft Condensed Matter, Statistical Mechanics

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/16823

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https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0009377
 http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0009377

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