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Equation of state for hard sphere fluids with and without Kac tails

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

In this note, we propose a simple derivation of the one dimensional hard rod equation of state, with and without a Kac tail (appended long range and weak potential). The case of hard spheres in higher dimension is also addressed and it is shown there that our arguments --which avoid any mathematical complication-- allow to recover the virial form of the equation of state in a direct way.

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@article{arxiv.0809.0597,
  title  = {Equation of state for hard sphere fluids with and without Kac tails},
  author = {E. Trizac and I. Pagonabarraga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.0597},
  year   = {2009}
}

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pedagogical paper