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Depletion interactions between two spherocylinders
1Institute of Theoretical Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China. wli@stfx.ca
Abstract:
The depletion interactions between two spherocylinders as functions of their separation and their relative orientation, induced by a small hard-sphere fluid, are calculated by Monte Carlo simulations using the acceptance ratio method (ARM). The torque on the spherocylinders is determined from the resulting potential. The calculation shows that the ARM is an effective way to obtain depletion interactions of spherocylinders. The depletion interaction under the Asakura-Oosawa (also excluded-volume) approximation is also calculated numerically.
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