On the radial distribution function of a hard-sphere fluid
Abstract
Two related approaches, one fairly recent [A. Trokhymchuk et al., J. Chem. Phys. 123, 024501 (2005)] and the other one introduced fifteen years ago [S. B. Yuste and A. Santos, Phys. Rev. A 43, 5418 (1991)], for the derivation of analytical forms of the radial distribution function of a fluid of hard spheres are compared. While they share similar starting philosophy, the first one involves the determination of eleven parameters while the second is a simple extension of the solution of the Percus-Yevick equation. It is found that the {second} approach has a better global accuracy and the further asset of counting already with a successful generalization to mixtures of hard spheres and other related systems.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0602125,
title = {On the radial distribution function of a hard-sphere fluid},
author = {M. Lopez de Haro and A. Santos and S. B. Yuste},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0602125},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages, 1 figure; v2: slightly shortened, figure changed, to be published in JCP