Coupling Effects of Depletion Interactions in Three-Sphere Systems with Different Size Ratio of Large- to Small-Sphere

Zhouan Zhou, Dai Gang, Changming Xiao

Department of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Zhangzhou Normal University, Zhangzhou, China; Department of Physics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.
Department of Physics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.

DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2013.46104                

Abstract

The coupling effects of depletion interactions in three-sphere systems with different size ratio of large- to small-sphere are studied by Monte Carlosimulations in this paper. The numerical results show that this coupling effect is affected by the size ratio of large- to small-sphere: the larger the size ratio is, the larger the coupling effect will be.

Keywords

Coupling Effects of Depletion Interactions; Three-Sphere Systems; Size Ratio

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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