Hard sphere perturbation theory for fluids with soft-repulsive-core potentials |
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Authors: | Ben-Amotz Dor Stell George |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA. |
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Abstract: | The thermodynamic properties of fluids with very soft repulsive-core potentials, resembling those of some liquid metals, are predicted with unprecedented accuracy using a new first-order thermodynamic perturbation theory. This theory is an extension of Mansoori-Canfield/Rasaiah-Stell (MCRS) perturbation theory, obtained by including a configuration integral correction recently identified by Mon, who evaluated it by computer simulation. In this work we derive an analytic expression for Mon's correction in terms of the radial distribution function of the soft-core fluid, g(0)(r), approximated using Lado's self-consistent extension of Weeks-Chandler-Andersen (WCA) theory. Comparisons with WCA and MCRS predictions show that our new extended-MCRS theory outperforms other first-order theories when applied to fluids with very soft inverse-power potentials (n< or =6), and predicts free energies that are within 0.3 kT of simulation results up to the fluid freezing point. |
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