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The Charge of Glass and Silica Surfaces
We present a method of calculating the electric charge density of glass and
silica surfaces in contact with aqueous electrolytes for two cases of practical
relevance that are not amenable to standard techniques: surfaces of low
specific area at low ionic strength and surfaces interacting strongly with a
second anionic surface.Comment: 7 pages, including 3 figure
Statistically Locked-in Transport Through Periodic Potential Landscapes
Classical particles driven through periodically modulated potential energy
landscapes are predicted to follow a Devil's staircase hierarchy of
commensurate trajectories depending on the orientation of the driving force.
Recent experiments on colloidal spheres flowing through arrays of optical traps
do indeed reveal such a hierarchy,but not with the predicted structure. The
microscopic trajectories, moreover,appear to be random, with commensurability
emerging only in a statistical sense. We introduce an idealized model for
periodically modulated transport in the presence of randomness that captures
both the structure and statistics of such statistically locked-in states.Comment: REVTeX with EPS figures, 4 pages, 4 figure
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