[HTML][HTML] The known-unknowns of anomalous underscreening in concentrated electrolytes

GR Elliott, KP Gregory, H Robertson, VSJ Craig… - Chemical Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Electrolytes are central to life and technology but lack complete understanding. Recent
experiments with highly concentrated electrolytes have revealed electrostatic decay lengths …

Towards local tracking of solvated metal ions at solid-liquid interfaces

W Trewby, M Tavakol, YM Jaques, K Voïtchovsky - Materials Today Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
The dynamics of individual solvated ions near solid surfaces is the driving force behind
numerous interfacial processes, from electrochemical reactions to charge storage, mineral …

On analytical theories for conductivity and self-diffusion in concentrated electrolytes

O Bernard, M Jardat, B Rotenberg… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Describing analytically the transport properties of electrolytes, such as their conductivity or
the self-diffusion of the ions, has been a central challenge of chemical physics for almost a …

Stochastic density functional theory for ions in a polar solvent

P Illien, A Carof, B Rotenberg - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
In recent years, the theoretical description of electrical noise and fluctuation-induced effects
in electrolytes has gained renewed interest, enabled by stochastic field theories like …

Hyperforce balance via thermal Noether invariance of any observable

S Robitschko, F Sammüller, M Schmidt… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Noether invariance in statistical mechanics provides fundamental connections between the
symmetries of a physical system and its conservation laws and sum rules. The latter are …

The Countoscope: measuring self and collective dynamics without trajectories

EKR Mackay, S Marbach, B Sprinkle, AL Thorneywork - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Driven by physical questions pertaining to quantifying particle dynamics, microscopy can
now resolve complex systems at the single-particle level, from cellular organisms to …

The Dean-Kawasaki equation and stochastic density functional theory

P Illien - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.13467, 2024 - arxiv.org
The Dean-Kawasaki (DK) equation, which is at the basis of stochastic density functional
theory (SDFT), was proposed in the mid-nineties to describe the evolution of the density of …

Measuring collective diffusion properties by counting particles in boxes

A Carter, EKR Mackay, B Sprinkle… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Collective diffusion, characterised by the collective diffusion coefficient $ D_\mathrm {coll} $,
is a key quantity for describing the macroscopic transport properties of soft matter systems …

Non-Gaussian density fluctuations in the Dean-Kawasaki equation

P Illien - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.16206, 2025 - arxiv.org
Computing analytically the $ n $-point density correlations in systems of interacting particles
is a long-standing problem of statistical physics, with a broad range of applications, from the …

Theoretical Basis for Classifying Hyperuniform States of Two-Component Systems

H Frusawa - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.06735, 2025 - arxiv.org
Hyperuniform states of matter exhibit unusual suppression of density fluctuations at large
scales, contrasting sharply with typical disordered configurations. Various types of …