The frequency of the two lowest energies of interaction in dipolar hard sphere systems

Abstract

This publication was inspired by the study of chaining in dipolar systems. Two adjacent particles form a chain is usually decided by energy or distance criterion. This prompted the author to investigate the frequency of interaction energy between nearby chain-forming particles in the dipolar system. So what is the frequency of the two lowest energies. Does have raison d’etre of the energy-based chaining criterion? Because if so, in the frequency chart qualitative change should have see at 70-75%, compared to the lowest possible energy. No such qualitative change was observed in the computer simulations. Monte Carlo simulations were performed at many densities and dipole moments in a dipolar hard sphere system. The simulation results were theoretically interpreted using the Boltzmann distribution The theoretical relationship was generalized to a wide range of density and dipole moments by fitting three suitable parameters. The fitting was necessary due to the compressive effect of density.