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A method to obtain (approximate) analytical expressions for the radial distribution functions in a multicomponent mixture of additive hard spheres that was recently introduced is used to obtain the direct correlation functions and bridge…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-15 S. B. Yuste , A. Santos , M. López de Haro

The chemical potential of a hard-sphere fluid can be expressed in terms of the contact value of the radial distribution function of a solute particle with a diameter varying from zero to that of the solvent particles. Exploiting the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-24 Andrés Santos

We consider the effect of intermolecular interactions on the optimal size-distribution of $N$ hard spheres that occupy a fixed total volume. When we minimize the free-energy of this system, within the Percus-Yevick approximation, we find…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Junfang Zhang , Ronald Blaak , Emmanuel Trizac , Jose A. Cuesta , Daan Frenkel

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

Measuring the structure factor, S(q), of a dispersion of particles by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering provides a unique method to investigate the spatial arrangement of colloidal particles. However, it is impossible to find the exact location…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-09 Robert Botet , Sylvie Kwok , Bernard Cabane

We study, through the diffusion Monte Carlo method, a spin one-half fermion fluid, in the three dimensional Euclidean space, at zero temperature. The point particles, immersed in a uniform "neutralizing" background, interact with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-11 Riccardo Fantoni

We propose a simple two-step approximation for the radial distribution function of a one-component two-dimensional Yukawa fluid. This approximation is specified by the key parameters of the system: coupling parameter and screening…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-06 Ilnaz I. Fairushin , Anatolii V. Mokshin

We derive an exact equation for density changes induced by a general external field that corrects the hydrostatic approximation where the local value of the field is adsorbed into a modified chemical potential. Using linear response theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kirill Katsov , John D. Weeks

We use the Percus-Yevick approach in the chemical-potential route to evaluate the equation of state of hard hyperspheres in five dimensions. The evaluation requires the derivation of an analytical expression for the contact value of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-13 René D. Rohrmann , Andrés Santos

The Percus-Yevick theory for monodisperse hard spheres gives very good results for the pressure and structure factor of the system in a whole range of densities that lie within the liquid phase. However, the equation seems to lead to a very…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-01 Eytan Katzav , Ruslan Berdichevsky , Moshe Schwartz

We measure the two-point density correlations and Voronoi cell distributions of cyclically sheared granular spheres obtained with a fluorescence technique and compare them with random packing of frictionless spheres. We find that the radial…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Andreea Panaitescu , Arshad Kudrolli

A model for the radial distribution function $g(r)$ of a square-well fluid of variable width previously proposed [S. B. Yuste and A. Santos, J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 101}, 2355 (1994)] is revisited and simplified. The model provides an explicit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Acedo , A. Santos

The rational function approximation method, density functional theory, and NVT Monte Carlo simulation are used to obtain the density profiles of multicomponent hard-sphere mixtures near a planar hard wall. Binary mixtures with a size ratio…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-06 Alexandr Malijevsky , Santos B. Yuste , Andres Santos , Mariano Lopez de Haro

The paper investigates solutions of the fractional hyperbolic diffusion equation in its most general form with two fractional derivatives of distinct orders. The solutions are given as spatial-temporal homogeneous and isotropic random…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Nikolai Leonenko , Andriy Olenko , Jayme Vaz

We calculated the spatial distribution of reduced density and pair distribution function (PDF) of solvent hard spheres near a solute using three-dimensional Ornstein-Zernike (OZ) equations coupled with closures in which Percus-Yevick (PY)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-27 Mika Matsuo , Yuka Nakamura , Masahiro Kinoshita , Ryo Akiyama

The electrostatics properties of composite materials with fractal geometry are studied in the framework of fractional calculus. An electric field in a composite dielectric with a fractal charge distribution is obtained in the spherical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Emmanuel Baskin , Alexander Iomin

Percus showed that approximate theories for the structure of nonuniform hard sphere fluids can be generated by linear truncations of functional expansions of the nonuniform density rho (r) about that of an appropriately chosen uniform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yng-Gwei Chen , John D. Weeks

We investigate a recent suggestion that the spatial distribution of earthquake hypocenters makes a fractal set with a structure and fractal dimensionality close to those of the backbone of critical percolation clusters, by analyzing four…

We numerically investigate the electric potential distribution over a two-dimensional continuum percolation model between the electrodes. The model consists of overlapped conductive particles on the background with an infinitesimal…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Shigeki Matsutani , Yoshiyuki Shimosako , Yunhong Wang

The definitions and applications of Radial Distribution Function (RDF) and Structure Factor (SF) to study properties of aggregate are found in many papers and books. The approach adopted to calculate the RDF and the SF to determine the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-08-10 M. Cattani , M. C. Salvadori , F. S. Teixeira