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Using a fundamental measure density functional theory we investigate both bulk and inhomogeneous systems of the binary non-additive hard sphere model. For sufficiently large (positive) non-additivity the mixture phase separates into two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-30 Paul Hopkins , Matthias Schmidt

A geometry-based density functional theory is presented for mixtures of hard spheres, hard needles and hard platelets; both the needles and the platelets are taken to be of vanishing thickness. Geometrical weight functions that are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Ansgar Esztermann , Hendrik Reich , Matthias Schmidt

We review the literature on scaled particle theory (SPT) and its extensions and discuss results applied to describe the thermodynamics of hard particle mixtures. After explaining the basic concepts of scaled particle theory to compute the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-01 Volodymyr Shmotolokha , Jonas Maier-Borst , Mark Vis , Anja Kuhnhold , Remco Tuinier

The London ground-state energy formula as a function of number density $\rho $ for a system of boson hard spheres of diameter $c$ at zero temperature (corrected for the reduced mass of a pair of particles in a ``sphere-of-influence''…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Solis , M. de Llano , J. W. Clark

Density functional theory is used to study binary colloidal fluids consisting of hard spheres and thin platelets in their bulk and near a planar hard wall. This system exhibits liquid-liquid coexistence of a phase that is rich in spheres…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Harnau , S. Dietrich

The London ground-state energy formula as a function of number density for a system of identical boson hard spheres, corrected for the reduced mass of a pair of particles in a sphere-of-influence picture, and generalized to fermion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. A. Solís , M. de Llano , J. W. Clark , George A. Baker

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

The structure of polydisperse hard sphere fluids, in the presence of a wall, is studied by the Rosenfeld density functional theory. Within this approach, the local excess free energy depends on only four combinations of the full set of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Pagonabarraga , M. E. Cates , G. J. Ackland

The thermodynamic stability of the hard-sphere gas has been examined, using the formalism of scaled particle theory [SPT], and by applying explicitly the conditions of stability required by both the second and third laws of thermodynamics.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. F. Kenney

A previously developed fundamental measure fucntional [J. Chem. Phys. vol.107, 6379 (1997)] is used to study the phase behavior of a system of parallel hard cubes. The single-component fluid exhibits a continuous transition to a solid with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Martinez-Raton , J. A. Cuesta

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

The fundamental measure density functional theory for hard spheres is generalized to binary mixtures of arbitrary positive and moderate negative non-additivity between unlike components. In bulk the theory predicts fluid-fluid phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Schmidt

We represent the free energy functional by a diagrammatic series with tensorial coefficients indexed by powers of length scale. For hard cores, we obtain Percus' exact functional in one dimension and the Kierlik-Rosinberg form of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 Gavin Leithall , Matthias Schmidt

Molecular-dynamics simulations are presented for two correlation functions formed with the partial density fluctuations of binary hard-sphere mixtures in order to explore the effects of mixing on the evolution of glassy dynamics upon…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Foffi , W. Gotze , F. Sciortino , P. Tartaglia , Th. Voigtmann

Although density functional theory provides reliable predictions for the static properties of simple fluids under confinement, a theory of comparative accuracy for the transport coefficients has yet to emerge. Nonetheless, there is evidence…

We propose an improved effective-medium theory to obtain the concentration dependence of the viscosity of particle suspensions at arbitrary volume fractions. Our methodology can be applied, in principle, to any particle shape as long as the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-06-01 I. Santamaria-Holek , Carlos I. Mendoza

The energy and structure of dilute hard- and soft-sphere Bose gases are systematically studied in the framework of several many-body approaches, as the variational correlated theory, the Bogoliubov model and the uniform limit approximation,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Mazzanti , A. Polls , A. Fabrocini

The free energies of the FCC, BCC, HCP and Simple Cubic phases for hard spheres are calculated as a function of density using the Fundamental Measure Theory models of Rosenfeld et al (PRE 55, 4245 (1997)), Tarazona (PRL 84, 694 (2001)) and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-20 James F. Lutsko

Based on the general principles of Lorentz symmetry and unitary, we introduce two consistency conditions -- on-shell gauge symmetry and strong massive-massless continuation -- in constructing amplitudes of massive gauge theory with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-20 Junmou Chen

The organization of water molecules and ions between charged mineral surfaces determines the stability of colloidal suspensions and the strength of phase-separated particulate gels. In this article we assemble a density functional that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-15 Thomas Petersen