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Minimum-energy distribution of point charges confined to a square

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  • Hüseyin Oymak

    (Department of Physics, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Atilim University, 06836 Ankara, Turkey)

  • Abdulwahhab Alkuwafi

    (Department of Physics, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Atilim University, 06836 Ankara, Turkey†Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Al Bayda, Libya)

Abstract

The minimum-energy configurations of N(2≤N≤160) identical classical point charges confined within a square under the effect of a Coulombic 1∕r potential have been determined by performing steepest-descent simulations. The energies of the final optimized configurations are given, along with their corresponding structural charge distributions. When all systems evolve in time to reach a minimum-energy configuration, local or global, they are all seen to be in quest of symmetry.

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  • Hüseyin Oymak & Abdulwahhab Alkuwafi, 2019. "Minimum-energy distribution of point charges confined to a square," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 30(05), pages 1-27, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:30:y:2019:i:05:n:s0129183119500360
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183119500360
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