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A versatile new approach for calculating the depletion potential in a hard sphere mixture is presented. This is valid for any number of components and for arbitrary densities. We describe two different routes to the depletion potential for…

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

We solve the Percus-Yevick equation in even dimensions by reducing it to a set of simple integro-differential equations. This work generalizes an approach we developed previously for hard discs. We numerically obtain both the pair…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-15 M. Adda-Bedia , E. Katzav , D. Vella

Near-critical binary mixtures containing ions and confined between two charged and selective surfaces are studied within a Landau-Ginzburg theory extended to include electrostatic interactions. Charge density profiles and the effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-28 Faezeh Pousaneh , Alina Ciach , Anna Maciolek

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

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

In a previous work, a simple approach to derive the jamming packing fraction of a hard-sphere mixture from the knowledge of the random close-packing fraction of the monocomponent system was proposed. Now, an extension of that approach is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-20 Andrés Santos , Mariano López de Haro

The static and dynamic properties of binary mixtures of hard spheres with a diameter ratio of $\sigma_B/\sigma_A=0.1$ and a mass ratio of $m_B/m_A=0.001$ are investigated using event driven molecular dynamics. The contact value of the pair…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-30 Marcus N. Bannerman , Leo Lue

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 simple "trick" is proposed, which allows to perform exactly the site-averaging procedure required when developing integral equation theories of interaction site models of macromolecular fluids. It shows that no approximation is involved…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Krakoviack

Using liquid integral equation theory, we calculate the pair correlations of particles that interact via a smooth repulsive pair potential in d = 4 spatial dimensions. We discuss the performance of different closures for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-09 M. Heinen , J. Horbach , H. Löwen

A second-order supersymmetric transformation is presented, for the two-channel Schr\"odinger equation with equal thresholds. It adds a Breit-Wigner term to the mixing parameter, without modifying the eigenphase shifts, and modifies the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Andrey Pupasov , Boris F. Samsonov , Jean-Marc Sparenberg , Daniel Baye

Mesoscopic molecular dynamics simulations are used to determine the large scale structure of several binary polymer mixtures of various chemical architecture, concentration, and thermodynamic conditions. By implementing an analytical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-05 J. McCarty , I. Y. Lyubimov , M. G. Guenza

The problem of demixing in a binary fluid mixture of highly asymmetric additive hard spheres is revisited. A comparison is presented between the results derived previously using truncated virial expansions for three finite size ratios with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-03 Mariano López de Haro , Carlos F. Tejero , Andrés Santos

A recently derived method [R. D. Rohrmann and A. Santos, Phys. Rev. E. {\bf 76}, 051202 (2007)] to obtain the exact solution of the Percus-Yevick equation for a fluid of hard spheres in (odd) $d$ dimensions is used to investigate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-05 Rene D. Rohrmann , Miguel Robles , Mariano Lopez de Haro , Andres Santos

In a previous paper (J. Zhang {\it et al.}, J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 110}, 5318 (1999)) we introduced a model for polydisperse hard sphere mixtures that is able to adjust its particle-size distribution. Here we give the explanation of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Ronald Blaak , Jose A. Cuesta

In this paper we first apply the general analysis described in our first paper to a binary mixture of cyclohexane and $n$-hexane. We use the square gradient model for the continuous description of a non-equilibrium surface and obtain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-24 K. S. Glavatskiy , D. Bedeaux

In this paper we propose and explore a method of analysis of the scattering experimental data for uniform liquid-like systems. In our pragmatic approach we are not trying to introduce by hands an artificial small parameter to work out a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-24 E. I. Kats , A. R. Muratov

We use molecular dynamics simulations to test integral equation theory predictions for the structure of fluids of spherical particles with eight different piecewise-constant pair interaction forms comprising a hard core and a combination of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-01 Kyle B. Hollingshead , Thomas M. Truskett

A Ginzburg-Landau theory is presented to investigate solvation effects in near-critical polar fluid binary mixtures. Concentration-dependence of the dielectric constant gives rise to a shell region around a charged particle within which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Akira Onuki , Hikaru Kitamura

The phase diagram of a binary fluid mixture of highly asymmetric additive hard spheres is investigated. Demixing is analyzed from the exact low-density expansions of the thermodynamic properties of the mixture and compared with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 C. F. Tejero , M. Lopez de Haro