In the limit of infinite spatial dimensions a thermodynamically consistent theory, which is valid for arbitrary value of the Coulombic interaction (U < ∞), is built for the Hubbard model when the total auxiliary single-site problem exactly splits into four subspaces with different “vacuum states”. Some analytical results are given for the Hartree-Fock approximation when the 4-pole structure for...

We consider the effect of molecular anisotropy and dipole moment on the rate of homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation of molecular and dipolar fluids. Density functional theory is applied to an interaction site model of molecules composed of two tangent or fused hard spheres interacting through Lennard-Jones and coulombic potentials. Interfacial properties are conditioned by entropy vs energ...

We investigate pairwise electrostatic interaction methods and show that there are viable computationally efficient (O(N)) alternatives to the Ewald summation for typical modern molecular simulations. These methods are extended from the damped and cutoff-neutralized Coulombic sum originally proposed by Wolf et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 110, 8255 (1999)]. One of these, the damped shifted force method, ...

The electronic stopping cross-section is calculated in the spirit of the Bethe theory. Interaction potential between projectile and target is regarded to have a Coulombic character and we have modified it to take into account velocity dependences on a number of bound electrons of projectile and an effective charge of projectile and target. These velocity dependences are obtained from the Bohr a...

Lithium metal is an ideal battery anode. However, dendrite growth and limited Coulombic efficiency during cycling have prevented its practical application in rechargeable batteries. Herein, we report that the use of highly concentrated electrolytes composed of ether solvents and the lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide salt enables the high-rate cycling of a lithium metal anode at high Coulombic ef...

We consider two very different models of the flux tube linking two heavy quarks: a string linking the matter fields and a Coulombic description of two separately gauge invariant charges. We compare how close they are to the unknown true ground state in compact U(1) and the SU(2) Higgs model. Simulations in compact U(1) show that the string description is better in the confined phase but the Cou...

We propose a technique for achieving large improvements in carrier mobilities in 2- and 1-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures by modifying their dielectric environments. We show that by coating the nanostructures with high-kappa dielectrics, scattering from Coulombic impurities can be strongly damped. Though screening is also weakened, the damping of Coulombic scattering is much larger, an...

We are interested here in bound states composed only by heavy quarks (and gluons). In such cases, at least for the lowest states, the characteristic radius r (r being the qq̄ distance) of the system is small, typically too small to probe the confinement effects, which arise at a scale 1/ΛQCD ≫ r. In the following I will call such systems ’Coulombic’ or ‘quasi-Coulombic’. These situations are par...