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Classical density functional theory (DFT) is a statistical mechanical theory for calculating the density profiles of the molecules in a liquid. It is widely used, for example. to calculate the density distribution of the molecules in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-08 Adam P. Hughes , Uwe Thiele , Andrew J. Archer

We examine statics and dynamics of phase-separated states of dilute binary mixtures using density functional theory. In our systems, the difference in the salvation chemical potential $\Delta\mu_s$ between liquid and gas is considerably…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-13 Ryuichi Okamoto , Akira Onuki

To speak about fundamental measure theory obliges to mention dimensional crossover. This feature, inherent to the systems themselves, was incorporated in the theory almost from the beginning. Although at first it was thought to be a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luis Lafuente , Jose A. Cuesta

The molecular density functional theory of fluids provides an exact theory for computing solvation free energies in implicit solvents. One of the reasons it has not received nearly as much attention as quantum density functional theory for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-04 David M. Rogers

Confined fluids display complex behavior due to layering and local packing. Here, we disentangle these effects by confining a hard-sphere fluid to the surface of a cylinder, such the circumference extends only over a few particle diameters.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-23 Charlotte F. Petersen , Lukas Schrack , Thomas Franosch

A free-energy functional for a crystal that contains both the symmetry conserved and symmetry broken parts of the direct pair correlation function is developed. The free-energy functional is used to investigate the crystallization of fluids…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Swarn Lata Singh , Yashwant Singh

The integral equations for the correlation functions of an inhomogeneous fluid mixture are derived using a functional Taylor expansion of the free energy around an inhomogeneous equilibrium distribution. The system of equations is closed by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Oettel

Two-component Fermi gases with tunable repulsive or attractive interactions inside quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) harmonic wells may soon become the cleanest laboratory realizations of strongly correlated Luttiger and Luther-Emery liquids…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Gao Xianlong , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , M. P. Tosi

We perform the analysis of predictions of a classical density functional theory for associating fluids with different association strength concerned with wetting of solid surfaces. The four associating sites water-like models with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-01 A. Kozina , M. Aguilar , O. Pizio , S. Sokołowski

We study effects of fluctuations on the mesoscopic length-scale on systems with mesoscopic inhomogeneities. Equations for the correlation function and for the average volume fraction are derived in the self-consistent Gaussian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-25 A. Ciach , W. T. Gozdz

Accurate treatment of the electronic correlation in inhomogeneous electronic systems, combined with the ability to capture the correlation energy of the homogeneous electron gas, allows to reach high predictive power in the application of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-22 E. Rasanen , S. Pittalis , C. R. Proetto

A fluid constituted of hard spherocylinders is studied using a density functional theory for non-spherical hard particles, which can be written as a function of weighted densities. This is based on an extended deconvolution of the Mayer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 René Wittmann , Klaus Mecke

Comprehensive calculations were performed to predict the phase behaviour of large spherical colloids mixed with small spherical colloids that act as depletant. To this end, the free volume theory (FVT) of Lekkerkerker et al. [Europhys.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-29 J. Opdam , M. P. M. Schelling , R. Tuinier

Development of the electronic kinetic-energy density functional is a subject of major interest in theoretical physics and chemistry. In this work, the nonlocal kinetic-energy functional is developed in terms of the response function for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Hideaki Takahashi

By introducing the self-energy density functionals for the dissipative interactions between the reduced system and its environment, we develop a time-dependent density-functional theory formalism based on an equation of motion for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao Zheng , Fan Wang , Chi Yung Yam , Yan Mo , GuanHua Chen

Density-potential functional theory (DPFT) is an alternative formulation of orbital-free density functional theory that may be suitable for modeling the electronic structure of large systems. To date, DPFT has been applied mainly to quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-21 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , William C. Witt , Sergei Manzhos

We investigate the orientational properties of a homogeneous and inhomogeneous tetrahedral 4-patch fluid (Kern--Frenkel model). Using integral equations, either (i) HNC or (ii) a modified HNC scheme with simulation input, the full…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-07 Alessandro Simon , Luc Belloni , Daniel Borgis , Martin Oettel

We write equations of motion for density variables that are equivalent to Newtons equations. We then propose a set of trial equations parameterised by two unknown functions to describe the exact equations. These are chosen to best fit the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Zaccarelli , G. Foffi , P. De Gregorio , F. Sciortino , P. Tartaglia , K. A. Dawson

For a film of liquid on a solid surface, the binding potential $g(h)$ gives the free energy as a function of the film thickness $h$ and also the closely related structural disjoining pressure $\Pi = - \partial g / \partial h$. The wetting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-24 Adam P. Hughes , Uwe Thiele , Andrew J. Archer

Using dynamical density functional theory (DDFT), we theoretically study Brownian self-diffusion and structural relaxation of hard disks and compare to experimental results on quasi two-dimensional colloidal hard spheres. To this end, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-04 Daniel Stopper , Alice Thorneywork , Roel Dullens , Roland Roth