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An approach to obtain the structural properties of additive binary hard-sphere mixtures is presented. Such an approach, which is a nontrivial generalization of the one recently used for monocomponent hard-sphere fluids [S. Pieprzyk, A. C.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-20 S. Pieprzyk , A. C. Brańka , S. B. Yuste , A. Santos , M. López de Haro

A theory of freezing of a dense hard sphere gas is presented. Starting from a revised Enskog theory, hydrodynamic equations that account for non-local variations in the density but local variations in the flow field are derived using a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Arvind Baskaran , Aparna Baskaran , John Lowengrub

We propose a density functional to find the ground state energy and density of interacting particles, where both the density and the pair density can adjust in the presence of an inhomogeneous potential. As a proof of principle we formulate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Lorenzana , Z. -J. Ying , V. Brosco

We present a modification to our recently published SAFT-based classical density functional theory for water. We have recently developed and tested a functional for the averaged radial distribution function at contact of the hard-sphere…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Eric J. Krebs , Jeff B. Schulte , David Roundy

We prove a novel inversion theorem for functionals given as power series in infinite-dimensional spaces and apply it to the inversion of the density-activity relation for inhomogeneous systems. This provides a rigorous framework to prove…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Sabine Jansen , Tobias Kuna , Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis

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

The Barker-Henderson perturbation theory is a bedrock of liquid-state physics, providing quantitative predictions for the bulk thermodynamic properties of realistic model systems. However, this successful method has not been exploited for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-03 S. M. Tschopp , H. D. Vuijk , A. Sharma , J. M. Brader

We present an alternative derivation of the dynamical density functional theory for the one body density profile of a classical fluid developed by Marconi and Tarazona [J. Chem. Phys., 110, 8032 (1999)]. Our derivation elucidates further…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Archer , R. Evans

A simple result for the pressure of a hard sphere fluid that was developed many years ago by Rennert is extended in a straightforward manner by adding the terms that are of the same form as the Rennert's formula. The resulting expression is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-13 D. Henderson

We apply a recently proposed density functional for mixtures of parallel hard cylinders, based on Rosenfeld's fundamental measure theory, to study the effect of length-polydispersity on the relative stability between the smectic and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuri Martinez-Raton , Jose A. Cuesta

We present an extension of our recently introduced molecular density functional theory of water [G. Jeanmairet et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4, 619, 2013] to the solvation of hydrophobic solutes of various sizes, going from angstroms to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maximilien Levesque , Daniel Borgis

A density-functional theory is established for inhomogeneous superfluids at finite temperature, subject to time-dependent external fields in isothermal conditions. After outlining parallelisms between a neutral superfluid and a charged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. L. Chiofalo , M. P. Tosi

A recently proposed rational-function approximation [Phys. Rev. E \textbf{84}, 041201 (2011)] for the structural properties of nonadditive hard spheres is applied to evaluate analytically (in Laplace space) the local density profiles of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-08 Riccardo Fantoni , Andrés Santos

We present a new density functional, which is the result of a natural evolution and improvement of previous density functional theories for liquid helium. We focus on the key ingredients of the theory, showing how they determine important…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Franco Dalfovo , Andrea Lastri , Sandro Stringari

We prove a theorem, using the density functional approach and relying on a classical result by Lieb and Simon on Thomas-Fermi model, showing that in the thermodynamic limit bulk matter is at most semiclassical and coherence preserving. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Frasca

The properties of a hard-sphere fluid in contact with hard spherical and cylindrical walls are studied. Rosenfeld's density functional theory (DFT) is applied to determine the density profile and surface tension $\gamma$ for wide ranges of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bryk , R. Roth , K. R. Mecke , S. Dietrich

The direct correlation function of a fluid mixture of parallel hard cubes is obtained by using Rosenfeld's fundamental measure approximation. This approximation is thermodynamically consistent (compressibility and virial equations of state…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Jose A. Cuesta

We present a generalized mode-coupling theory for a dense binary fluid mixture. The theory is used to calculate molecular-scale renormalizations to the stress-tensor autocorrelation function (STAF) and to the long-wavelength zero-frequency…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Supurna Sinha , M. Cristina Marchetti

We investigate isotropic-isotropic, isotropic-nematic and nematic-nematic phase coexistence in binary mixtures of circular platelets with vanishing thickness, continuous rotational degrees of freedom and radial size ratios $\lambda$ up to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Jonathan Phillips , Matthias Schmidt

Disordered and hyperuniform structures of densely packed spheres near and at jamming are characterized by vanishing of long-wavelength density fluctuations, or equivalently by long-range power-law decay of the direct correlation function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-04 Hiroshi Frusawa