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The moving bar problem: an electromechanical damped oscillator
Carlos E. Alvarez
The conducting bar sliding on rails through a uniform magnetic field is a standard textbook illustration of Faraday's law, almost always solved assuming the magnetic field produced…
One-particle engine with a porous piston
Carlos E. Álvarez, Manuel Camargo, Gabriel Téllez
We propose a variation of the classical Szilard engine that uses a porous piston. Such an engine requires neither information about the position of the particle, nor the removal an…
Work done on a single-particle gas during an adiabatic compression/expansion process
Carlos E. Álvarez, Nicolás Afanador, Gabriel Téllez
We compute the average work done by an external agent, driving a piston at constant speed, over a single particle gas going through an adiabatic compression and expansion process.…
Renormalized jellium model for colloidal mixtures
María Isabel García de Soria, Carlos E. Álvarez, Emmanuel Trizac
In an attempt to quantify the role of polydispersity in colloidal suspensions, we present an efficient implementation of the renormalized jellium model for a mixture of spherical c…
Mixtures of Hard Ellipsoids and Spheres: Stability of the Nematic Phase
Carlos E. Alvarez, Martial Mazars
The stability of liquid crystal phases in presence of small amount of non-mesogenic impurities is of general interest for a large spectrum of technological applications and in the…
Percolation and orientational ordering in systems of magnetic nanorods
Carlos E. Alvarez, Sabine H. L. Klapp
Based on Monte Carlo (MC) computer simulations we study the structure formation of a system of magnetic nanorods. Our model particles consist of fused spheres with permanent magnet…
Screening of charged spheroidal colloidal particles
Carlos Alvarez, Gabriel Tellez
We study the effective screened electrostatic potential created by a spheroidal colloidal particle immersed in an electrolyte, within the mean field approximation, using Poisson--B…
Structure and thermodynamics of a ferrofluid bilayer
Carlos Alvarez, Martial Mazars, Jean-Jacques Weis
We present extensive Monte Carlo simulations for the thermodynamic and structural properties of a planar bilayer of dipolar hard spheres for a wide range of densities, dipole momen…