The conductivity of strong electrolytes from stochastic density functional theory
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en
Article de revue
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Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2016-02-25, vol. 2016, n° 2, p. 023106 (1-16)
IOP Publishing
English Abstract
Stochastic density functional theory is applied to analyze the conductivity of strong two species electrolytes at arbitrary field strengths. The corresponding stochastic equations for the density of the electrolyte species ...Read more >
Stochastic density functional theory is applied to analyze the conductivity of strong two species electrolytes at arbitrary field strengths. The corresponding stochastic equations for the density of the electrolyte species are solved by linearizing them about the mean density of ionic species, yielding an effective Gaussian theory. The non-equilibrium density-density correlation functions are computed and the conductivity of the electrolyte is deduced. In the bulk, our results give a simple derivation of the results of Onsager and coworkers who used very different methods. The method developed here can also be used to study electrolytes confined in one and two dimensions and interacting via either the three dimensional Coulomb interaction or the Coulomb interaction corresponding to that dimension of space.Read less <
English Keywords
correlation functions
transport processes/heat transfer (theory)
ionic liquids
electrolyte solutions
liquid metals and charged fluids (experiments)
Origin
Hal imported