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Understanding the properties of warm dense hydrogen is of key importance for the modeling of compact astrophysical objects and to understand and further optimize inertial confinement fusion (ICF) applications. The work horse of warm dense…

Using molecular-dynamics simulation, we have calculated the interfacial free energy, \gamma, between a hard-sphere fluid and hard spherical and cylindrical colloidal particles, as functions of the particle radius R and the fluid packing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-23 Brian B. Laird , Ruslan L. Davidchack

The fundamental measure approach to classical density functional theory has been shown to be a powerful tool to predict various thermodynamic properties of hard-sphere systems. We employ this approach to determine not only one-particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-02 Andreas Härtel , Matthias Kohl , Michael Schmiedeberg

We present a versatile density functional approach (DFT) for calculating the depletion potential in general fluid mixtures. In contrast to brute force DFT, our approach requires only the equilibrium density profile of the small particles…

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

We reexamine results obtained with the recently proposed density functional theory framework based on forces (force-DFT) [Tschopp et al., Phys. Rev. E 106, 014115 (2022)]. We compare inhomogeneous density profiles for hard sphere fluids to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-28 Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

We use analytical calculations and event-driven molecular dynamics simulations to study a small number of hard sphere particles in a spherical cavity. The cavity is taken also as the thermal bath so that the system thermalizes by collisions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-30 Ignacio Urrutia , Claudio Pastorino

By combining aspects of the coherent and self intermediate scattering functions, measured by dynamical light scattering on a suspension of hard sphere-like particles, we show that the arrest of particle number density fluctuations spreads…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 W. van Megen , V. A. Martinez , G. Bryant

We use virial series to study the equilibrium properties of confined soft-spheres fluids interacting through the inverse-power potentials. The confinement is induced by hard walls with planar, spherical and cylindrical shapes. We evaluate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-28 Ignacio Urrutia

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a robust framework for modeling interacting many-body systems, including the equation of state (EoS) of dense matter. Many models, however, rely on energy functionals based on assumptions that have not…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-06 Udita Shukla , Pok Man Lo

The local balance equations for the density, momentum, and energy of a dilute gas of elastic or inelastic hard spheres, strongly confined between two parallel hard plates are obtained. The starting point is a Boltzmann-like kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 J. Javier Brey , P. Maynar , M. I. García de Soria

This work explores the use of joint density-functional theory, a new form of density-functional theory for the ab initio description of electronic systems in thermodynamic equilibrium with a liquid environment, to describe electrochemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Kendra Letchworth-Weaver , T. A. Arias

A density functional theory for a macroion suspension is examined, where the excess free energy corresponds to the macroion self energy arising from the polarisation of the supporting electrolyte solution. This is treated within a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick B. Warren

Using classical density functional theory, we study the behavior of dimers, i.e. hard rods of length $L=2$, on a two-dimensional cubic lattice. For deriving a free energy functional, we employ Levy's prescription which is based on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-13 Michael Zimmermann , Martin Oettel

We propose an alternative theory for the relaxation of density fluctuations in glass-forming fluids. We derive an equation of motion for the density correlation function which is local in time and is similar in spirit to the equation of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-01 Grzegorz Szamel

We prove that the electron density function of a real physical system can be uniquely determined by its values on any finite subsystem. This establishes the existence of a rigorous density-functional theory for any open electronic system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao Zheng , Fan Wang , GuanHua Chen

The reformulation of the mode-coupling theory (MCT) of the liquid-glass transition which incorporates the element of metastability is applied to the hard-sphere system. It is shown that the glass transition in this system is not a sharp one…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Joonhyun Yeo

A simple model is proposed for the direct correlation function (DCF) for simple fluids consisting of a hard-core contribution, a simple parametrized core correction, and a mean-field tail. The model requires as input only the free energy of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-08 James F. Lutsko

The predictions of the mode-coupling theory of the glass transition (MCT) for the tagged-particle density-correlation functions and the mean-squared displacement curves are compared quantitatively and in detail to results from Newtonian-…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Th. Voigtmann , A. M. Puertas , M. Fuchs

Density functional theory for a simple model of dendrimers is proposed. The theory is based on fundamental measure theory which accounts for the hard-sphere repulsion of the segments and on the Wertheim first-order perturbation theory for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-11-12 Alexandr Malijevsky

Based on fundamental measure theory, a Helmholtz free energy density functional for three-component mixtures of hard spheres with general, non-additive interaction distances is constructed. The functional constitutes a generalization of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-28 Matthias Schmidt