Isotropic manifold

The Bjerrum length (after Danish chemist Niels Bjerrum 1879–1958 ) is the separation at which the electrostatic interaction between two elementary charges is comparable in magnitude to the thermal energy scale, $k_{B}T$, where $k_{B}$ is the Boltzmann constant and $T$ is the absolute temperature in Kelvin. This length scale arises naturally in discussions of electrostatic, electrodynamic and electrokinetic phenomena in electrolytes, polyelectrolytes and colloidal dispersions.

In standard units, the Bjerrum length is given by

$\lambda _{B}={\frac {e^{2}}{4\pi \varepsilon _{0}\varepsilon _{r}\ k_{B}T}},$

where $e$ is the elementary charge, $\varepsilon _{r}$ is the relative dielectric constant of the medium and $\varepsilon _{0}$ is the vacuum permittivity. For water at room temperature ($T=300{\mbox{ K}}$), $\varepsilon _{r}\approx 80$, so that $\lambda _{B}\approx 0.7{\mbox{nm}}$.

In Gaussian units, $4\pi \varepsilon _{0}=1$ and the Bjerrum length has the simpler form

$\lambda _{B}={\frac {e^{2}}{\varepsilon _{r}k_{B}T}}.$

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