Glosser, Christopher J.; Hill, Roger C.
Dielectric screening in a spherical cavity
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL, 41 Art. No. 375402, SEP 19 2008

In this work we examine the electrostatic screening potential due to a point charge located off-centre in a spherical dielectric cavity. This potential is expanded for the case in which the dielectric constant epsilon is large, several methods of finding the terms in the expansion are investigated, and closed-form expressions are found through third order in epsilon along with error bounds. Finally, possible uses of these expressions in molecular dynamics simulations of isolated charged molecules are discussed.

DOI:10.1088/1751-8113/41/37/375402

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