The thermodynamics of a charge-asymmetric lattice gas of positive ions carrying charge q and negative ions with charge 2zq is investigated using Debye–Hückel theory. Explicit analytic and numerical calculations, which take into account the formation of neutral and charged clusters and cluster solvation by the residual ions, are performed for z52, 3, and 4. As charge asymmetry increases, the pre...

This paper presents an approach to storing semistructured data in relational databases. We focus on semistructured data as extracted from Web pages by a tool called DEByE (Data Extraction By Example), and organized according to its data model, the DEByE Object Model (DEByE-OM). The approach presented here consists in representing the structure of objects extracted by DEByE by a relational schem...

Results on the correlations of low density classical and quantum Coulomb systems at equilibrium in three dimensions are reviewed. The exponential decay of particle correlations in the classical Coulomb system – Debye-Hückel screening – is compared and contrasted with the quantum case where strong arguments are presented for the absence of exponential screening. Results and techniques for detail...

Silicon nanowire field effect transistors (FETs) have emerged as ultrasensitive, label-free biodetectors that operate by sensing bound surface charge. However, the ionic strength of the environment (i.e., the Debye length of the solution) dictates the effective magnitude of the surface charge. Here, we show that control of the Debye length determines the spatial extent of sensed bound surface c...

We study the free energies of heavy quarks calculated from Polyakov loop correlation functions in full 2-flavour QCD using the p4-improved staggered fermion action. A small but finite baryon number density is included via Taylor expansion of the fermion determinant in the baryo-chemical potential µ. For temperatures above T c we extract Debye screening masses from the large distance behaviour o...

Literature dielectric data of glycerol, propylene carbonate, and ortho-terphenyl show that the measured dielectric relaxation is a decade faster than the Debye expectation but still a decade slower than the breakdown of the shear modulus. From a comparison of time scales, the dielectric relaxation seems to be due to a process which relaxes not only the molecular orientation but also the entropy...

The Debye-Wolf electromagnetic diffraction integral is now routinely used to describe focusing by high numerical (NA) lenses. We obtain an eigenfunction expansion of the electric vector field in the focal region in terms of Bessel and generalized prolate spheroidal functions. Our representation has many optimal and desirable properties which offer considerable simplification to the evaluation a...