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We develop a resummed thermodynamic perturbation theory for bond cooperativity in associating fluids by extension of Wertheim's multi - density formalism. We specifically consider the case of an associating hard sphere with two association…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-19 B. D. Marshall , W. G. Chapman

Fluids made of two-dimensional hard particles with polygonal shapes may stabilize symmetries which do not result directly from the particle shape. This is due to the formation of clusters in the fluid. Entropy alone can drive these effects,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-05 Yuri Martinez-Raton , Enrique Velasco

Model of hard sphere system is important part of modern theories of liquids. Radial distribution function of hard sphere fluid represented in form of explicit analytical expression allows to obtain thermodynamic potentials in analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-11 Timur Aslyamov

We propose a density functional for anisotropic fluids of hard body particles. It interpolates between the well-established geometrically based Rosenfeld functional for hard spheres and the Onsager functional for elongated rods. We test the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Giorgio Cinacchi , Friederike Schmid

We study structural relaxation of colloidal hard spheres undergoing Brownian motion using dynamical density functional theory. Contrary to the partial linearization route [Stopper {\em et al.}, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 92}, 022151 (2015)] which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-16 Daniel Stopper , Roland Roth , Hendrik Hansen-Goos

The density functional theory originally developed by Hohenberg, Kohn and Sham provides a rigorous conceptual framework for dealing with inhomogeneous interacting Fermi systems. We extend this approach to deal with inhomogeneous interacting…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Griffin

We investigate bulk structural properties of tetravalent associating particles within the framework of classical density functional theory, building upon Wertheim's thermodynamic perturbation theory. To this end, we calculate density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-08 Daniel Stopper , Frank Hirschmann , Martin Oettel , Roland Roth

We study various manifestations of structural crossover in the properties of a binary mixture of hard-spheres. For homogeneous mixtures that are sufficiently asymmetric, there is a crossover line in the phase diagram such that for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Grodon , M. Dijkstra , R. Evans , R. Roth

Interfaces between demixed fluid phases of binary mixtures of hard platelets are investigated using density-functional theory. The corresponding excess free energy functional is calculated within a fundamental measure theory adapted to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-14 M. Bier , L. Harnau , S. Dietrich

We provide novel random surface density functional theory (RSDFT) formulation in the case of geometric heterogeneous surface of solid media which is essential for description of thermodynamic properties of confined fluids. The major…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Timur Aslyamov , Aleksey Khlyupin

A fluid constituted of hard spherocylinders is studied using a density functional theory for non-spherical hard particles, which can be written as a function of weighted densities. This is based on an extended deconvolution of the Mayer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 René Wittmann , Klaus Mecke

We propose a new semi empirical expression of the virial coefficients for a hard sphere fluid which is valid in the disordered phase over the whole density range. The results are in good agreement with the numerical data and better than…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-15 Richard Bonneville

We present a density functional scheme for calculating the pair density (PD) by means of the correlated wave function. This scheme is free from both of problems related to PD functional theory, i.e., (a) the need to constrain the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-25 Masahiko Higuchi , Katsuhiko Higuchi

We construct a density functional for the lattice gas / Ising model on square and cubic lattices based on lattice fundamental measure theory. In order to treat the nearest-neighbor attractions between the lattice gas particles, the model is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 M. Maeritz , M. Oettel

We develop a dynamical density functional theory based model for the drying of colloidal films on planar surfaces. We consider mixtures of two different sizes of hard-sphere colloids. Depending on the solvent evaporation rate and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-28 Boshen He , Ignacio Martin-Fabiani , Roland Roth , Gyula I. Tóth , Andrew J. Archer

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

Fundamental Measure Theory (FMT) is a successful and versatile approach for describing the properties of the hard-sphere fluid and hard-sphere mixtures within the framework of classical density functional theory (DFT). Lutsko [Phys. Rev. E…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-04 Melih Gül , Roland Roth , Robert Evans

Transport properties of dense fluids are fundamentally challenging, because the powerful approaches of equilibrium statistical physics cannot be applied. Polar fluids compound this problem, because the long-range interactions preclude the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-16 Faezeh Pousaneh , Astrid S. de Wijn

This paper presents a novel formula for the transition density of the Brownian motion on a sphere of any dimension and discusses an algorithm for the simulation of the increments of the spherical Brownian motion based on this formula. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Aleksandar Mijatović , Veno Mramor , Gerónimo Uribe Bravo

I describe the foundation of a Density Functional Theory approach to include pairing correlations, which was applied to a variety of systems ranging from dilute fermions, to neutron stars and finite nuclei. Ground state properties as well…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Aurel Bulgac