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We propose a new type of effective densities via the potential distribution theorem. These densities are for the sake of enabling the mapping of the free energy of a uniform fluid onto that of a nonuniform fluid. The potential distribution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-21 L. L. Lee , G. Pellicane

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

Density-functional theory is applied to compute the ground-state energies of quantum hard-sphere solids. The modified weighted-density approximation is used to map both the Bose and the Fermi solid onto a corresponding uniform Bose liquid,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. R. Denton , P. Nielaba , N. W. Ashcroft

By using the Rosenfeld density functional we determine the number density profiles of both components of binary hard-sphere fluids close to a planar hard wall as well as the corresponding excess coverage and surface tension. The comparison…

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

The solvation of hydrophobic solutes in water is special because liquid and gas are almost at coexistence. In the common hypernetted chain approximation to integral equations, or equivalently in the homogenous reference fluid of molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maximilien Levesque , Volodymyr Sergiievskyi , Daniel Borgis

In this article we obtain a fundamental measure functional for the model of aligned hard hexagons in the plane. Our aim is not just to provide a functional for a new, admittedly academic, model, but to investigate the structure of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-11-26 Jose A. Capitan , Jose A. Cuesta

A hard sphere fluid confined by hard, structureless, and parallel walls is investigated using a certain version of weighted density functional theory. The density profile, the excess coverage, the finite size contribution to the free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 B. Gotzelmann , S. Dietrich

The onset of condensation of hard spheres in a gravitational field is studied using density functional theory. In particular, we find that the local density approximation yields results identical to those obtained previously using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joseph A. Both , Daniel C. Hong

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

In a recent publication[PRE 86, 04012 (2012)], Santos has presented a self-consistency condition that can be used to limit the possible forms of Fundamental Measure Theory. Here, the direct correlation function resulting from the Santos…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-19 James F. Lutsko

In a recent paper [M. G\"ul et al., Phys. Rev. E, 110 (6), 064115] we showed that test particle sum rules, which address the excess chemical potential and isothermal compressibility, could be used to develop new and accurate classical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-09 Melih Gül , Roland Roth , Robert Evans

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

An overview of several recent developments in density functional theory for classical inhomogeneous liquids is given. We show how Levy's constrained search method can be used to derive the variational principle that underlies density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-01 M. Schmidt , M. Burgis , W. S. B. Dwandaru , G. Leithall , P. Hopkins

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

The freezing transition of hard spheres has been well described by various versions of density-functional theory (DFT). These theories should possess the close-packed crystal as a special limit, which represents an extreme testing ground…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Benito Groh , Bela Mulder

A density functional theory for a mixture of hard rods and polymers modeled as chains built of hard tangent spheres is proposed by combining the functional due to Yu and Wu for the polymer mixtures [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 117}, 2368 (2002)]…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bryk

We propose microscopic density functional theory for inhomogeneous star polymers. Our approach is based on fundamental measure theory for hard spheres, and on Wertheim's first- and second-order perturbation theory for the interparticle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Malijevsky , P. Bryk , S. Sokolowski

In order to construct a general density-functional theory for nonuniform fluid mixtures, we propose an extension to multicomponent systems of the weighted-density approximation (WDA) of Curtin and Ashcroft [Phys. Rev. A 32, 2909 (1985)].…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ruslan L. Davidchack , Brian. B. Laird

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

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