Title

On Surface Properties of the One-component Plasma

Author(s)/Creator(s)

M-L Rosinberg, I'Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
J-P Badiali, I'Universite Pierre et Marie CurieFollow
Jerry Goodisman, Syracuse UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Date

2-17-1983

Keywords

Chemistry

Disciplines

Chemistry

Description/Abstract

We consider a plasma of point ions in the presence of a non-uniform neutralising background. This background. the source of an external field, may have some of its parameters (density, form of surface profile, etc) modified, as long as the total charge is maintained. By considering such modifications in the context of the density-functional formalism for the ions, we prove sum rules giving the first and second moments of the ion density p(z) in terms of other properties (bulk pressure and temperature derivative of surface tension). The Poisson-Boltzmann functional is considered in detail. We show that the first and second momenr conditions on p(z) are verified. We calculate p ( z ) exactly for this system, and also perform variational calculations: comparison shows the importance of respecting the asymptotic behaviour of p(z). Variational calculations have been performed, using the density-functional formalism in the square-gradient approximation. for systems with plasma parameter r from 1 to 10. For r > 3, important oscillations appear in the profile, as shown by recent Monte Carlo calculations. The profiles calculated variationally also show increasing oscillations. but are not in good agreement with the Monte Carlo results. The surface energies are poor even for r = 1 showing the inadequacy of the square-gradient expansion for this system.

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Recommended Citation

Rosinberg, M. -., -P.badiali, J., & Goodisman, J. (1983). On surface properties of the one-component plasma. Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 16(22), 4487-4503.

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