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We study various manifestations of structural crossover in the properties of a binary mixture of hard-spheres. For homogeneous mixtures that are sufficiently asymmetric, there is a crossover line in the phase diagram such that for…

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A hard sphere fluid confined by hard, structureless, and parallel walls is investigated using a certain version of weighted density functional theory. The density profile, the excess coverage, the finite size contribution to the free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 B. Gotzelmann , S. Dietrich

We compute the fourth virial coefficient of a binary nonadditive hard-sphere mixture over a wide range of deviations from diameter additivity and size ratios. Hinging on this knowledge, we build up a $y$ expansion [B. Barboy and W. N.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-25 G. Pellicane , F. Saija , C. Caccamo , P. V. Giaquinta

An extension of the Asakura-Oosawa-Vrij model of hard sphere colloids and non-adsorbing polymers, that takes polymer non-ideality into account through a repulsive stepfunction pair potential between polymers, is studied with grand canonical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. L. C. Vink , M. Schmidt

Using density functional theory we calculate the density profiles of a binary solvent adsorbed around a pair of big solute particles. All species interact via repulsive Gaussian potentials. The solvent exhibits fluid-fluid phase separation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Archer , R. Evans , R. Roth , M. Oettel

We provide an exact mapping between the density functional of a binary mixture and that of the effective one-component fluid in the limit of infinite asymmetry. The fluid of parallel hard cubes is thus mapped onto that of parallel adhesive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuri Martinez-Raton , Jose A. Cuesta

By using the Rosenfeld density functional we determine the number density profiles of both components of binary hard-sphere fluids close to a planar hard wall as well as the corresponding excess coverage and surface tension. The comparison…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Roth , S. Dietrich

Using density functionals from fundamental measure theory, phase diagrams and crystal-fluid surface tensions in additive and nonadditive (Asakura-Oosawa model) two-dimensional hard disk mixtures are determined for the whole range of size…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-01 Shang-Chun Lin , Martin Oettel

It is well known that the increase of the spatial dimensionality enhances the fluid-fluid demixing of a binary mixture of hard hyperspheres, i.e. the demixing occurs for lower mixture size asymmetry as compared to the three-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Luis Lafuente , Yuri Martinez-Raton

We study fluids of hard rods in the vicinity of hard spherical and cylindrical surfaces at densities below the isotropic-nematic transition. The Onsager second virial approximation is applied, which is known to yield exact results for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Groh , S. Dietrich

We investigate the liquid state structure of the two-dimensional (2D) model introduced by Barkan et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 098304 (2014)], which exhibits quasicrystalline and other unusual solid phases, focussing on the radial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-03 M. C. Walters , P. Subramanian , A. J. Archer , R. Evans

We report a Monte Carlo simulation study of the properties of highly asymmetric binary hard sphere mixtures. This system is treated within an effective fluid approximation in which the large particles interact through a depletion potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Julio Largo , Nigel B. Wilding

We use simulation-based supervised machine learning and classical density functional theory to investigate bulk and interfacial phenomena associated with phase coexistence in binary mixtures. For a prototypical symmetrical Lennard-Jones…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-23 Silas Robitschko , Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt , Robert Evans

The crystal-melt interfaces of a binary hard-sphere fluid mixture in coexistence with a single-component hard-sphere crystal is investigated using molecular-dynamics simulation. In the system under study, the fluid phase consists of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rachel Sibug-Aga , Brian B. Laird

Phase separation and criticality are analyzed in $z$:1 charge-asymmetric ionic fluids of equisized hard spheres by generalizing the Debye-H\"{u}ckel approach combined with ionic association, cluster solvation by charged ions, and hard-core…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean-Noel Aqua , Shubho Banerjee , Michael E. Fisher

Bulk properties and free interfaces of mixtures of charged platelike colloids and salt are studied within density-functional theory. The particles are modeled by hard cuboids with their edges constrained to be parallel to the artesian axes…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-14 Markus Bier , Ludger Harnau , S. Dietrich

We analyse the $r \to \infty$ asymptotic decay of the total correlation function, $h(r)$, for a fluid composed of particles interacting via a (point) Yukawa pair potential. Such a potential provides a simple model for dusty plasmas. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Hopkins , A. J. Archer , R. Evans

We analyze the structure of the Fundamental Measure Theory for the free energy density functional of hard sphere mixtures. A comparative study of the different versions of the theory, and other density functional approaches, is done in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Jose A. Cuesta , Yuri Martinez-Raton , Pedro Tarazona

We conduct a numerical study of the dynamic behavior of a dense hard sphere fluid by deriving and integrating a set of Langevin equations. The statics of the system is described by a free energy functional of the Ramakrishnan-Yussouff form.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Lisa M. Lust , Oriol T. Valls , Chandan Dasgupta

Liquid-state theory, computer simulation, and numerical optimization are used to investigate the extent to which positional correlations of a hard-sphere fluid--as characterized by the radial distribution function and the two-particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-23 Ryan B. Jadrich , Beth A. Lindquist , Jonathan A. Bollinger , Thomas M. Truskett