Local Approaches to Electrostatics
Professor Burkhard Duenweg
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Mainz, Germany
ABSTRACT
The talk gives an introduction to the method for the calculation of
electrostatic interactions put forward by Maggs, both in its Monte
Carlo and in its Molecular Dynamics version. It is shown that the
latter can be viewed as a straightforward application of the
Car-Parrinello approach to the coupled dynamics of charges and
electromagnetic fields, which is equivalent to a Galilei-invariant
form of Maxwell theory. The talk then focuses on more recent
developments, where the same idea is applied to solving the
Poisson-Boltzmann equation. It is shown that the resulting algorithm
is rather simple and intrinsically stable.
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