Long-ranged electrostatics from local algorithms

Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2011
Authors
Rottler, Jörg
Maggs,A.C.
Name of Publication
Soft Matter
Volume
7
Pagination
3260–3267
Date Published
jan
Abstract

We show how to generate the long-ranged Coulomb interaction between pairs of particles with the help of an auxiliary field evolving with local dynamics. This allows one to simulate systems containing electric charges without ever calculating the Coulomb potential or solving Poisson’s equation. The methods re