The Asakura Oosawa model in the protein limit: the role of many-body interactions
Abstract
We study the Asakura-Oosawa model in the 'protein limit', where the penetrable sphere radius RAO is much greater than the hard sphere radius Rc. The phase behaviour and structure calculated with a full many-body treatment show important qualitative differences when compared to a description based on pair potentials alone. The overall effect of the many-body interactions is repulsive.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
- Pub Date:
- December 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0953-8984/15/48/004
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0309283
- Bibcode:
- 2003JPCM...15S3429M
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter
- E-Print:
- 9 pages and 11 figures, submitted to J. Phys.: Condensed Matter, special issue "Effective many-body interactions and correlations in soft matter"