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We present a simple density functional theory for the solid phases of systems of particles interacting via soft-core potentials. In particular, we apply the theory to particles interacting via repulsive point Yukawa and Gaussian pair…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Archer

Accurately describing liquids and their mixtures beyond equilibrium remains a significant challenge in modern chemical physics and physical chemistry, especially regarding the calculation of transport properties in liquid-phase systems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-19 Yury A. Budkov , Nikolai N. Kalikin , Petr E. Brandyshev

We use supervised machine learning together with the concepts of classical density functional theory to investigate the effects of interparticle attraction on the pair structure, thermodynamics, bulk liquid-gas coexistence, and associated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-29 Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt , Robert Evans

A mode-coupling theory for the motion of a strongly forced probe particle in a dense colloidal suspension is presented. Starting point is the Smoluchowski equation for $N$ bath and a single probe particle. The probe performs Brownian motion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 Igor Gazuz , Matthias Fuchs

The aim of this paper is to review and discuss qualitatively some results on the properties of amorphous packings of hard spheres that were recently obtained by means of the replica method. The theory gives predictions for the equation of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Zamponi

We perform the analysis of predictions of a classical density functional theory for associating fluids with different association strength concerned with wetting of solid surfaces. The four associating sites water-like models with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-01 A. Kozina , M. Aguilar , O. Pizio , S. Sokołowski

We put forward a general procedure to obtain an approximate free energy density functional for any hard-core lattice gas, regardless of the shape of the particles, the underlying lattice or the dimension of the system. The procedure is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis Lafuente , Jose A. Cuesta

We present mode-coupling theory (MCT) results for densely packed hard-sphere fluids confined between two parallel walls and compare them quantitatively to computer simulations. The numerical solution of MCT is calculated for the first time…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-10 Gerhard Jung , Thomas Franosch

We present dynamical density functional theory results for the time evolution of the density distribution of a sedimenting model two-dimensional binary mixture of colloids. The interplay between the bulk phase behaviour of the mixture, its…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexandr Malijevsky , Andrew J. Archer

This paper presents a modified grand canonical ensemble which provides a new simple and efficient scheme to study few-body fluid-like inhomogeneous systems under confinement. The new formalism is implemented to investigate the exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-30 Ignacio Urrutia , Gabriela Castelletti

The new mathematical framework based on the free energy of pure classical fluids presented in [R. D. Rohrmann, Physica A 347, 221 (2005)] is extended to multi-component systems to determine thermodynamic and structural properties of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. D. Rohrmann , J. Zorec

We give an introductory account of the recent hyperdensity functional theory for the equilibrium statistical mechanics of soft matter systems [F. Samm\"uller et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 098201 (2024); 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.098201].…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-27 Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt

To calculate the solvation of hydrophobic solutes we have developed the method based on the fundamental measure treatment of the density functional theory. This method allows us to carry out calculations of density profiles and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor F. Sokolov , Gennady N. Chuev

In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. E \textbf{76}, 031202 (2007)], Schmidt has proposed a Fundamental Measure Density Functional Theory for one-dimensional nonadditive hard-rod fluid mixtures and has compared its predictions for the bulk…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-19 Andres Santos

Starting from Newton's equations of motion, we derive a dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) applicable to atomic liquids. The theory has the feature that it requires as input the Helmholtz free energy functional from equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Archer

A striking consequence of the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem of density functional theory is the existence of a bijection between the local density and the ground-state many-body wave function. Here we study the problem of constructing…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-17 Javier Robledo Moreno , Giuseppe Carleo , Antoine Georges

We present a brief review of the classical density functional theory of atomic and molecular fluids. We focus on the application of the theory to the determination of the solvation properties of arbitrary molecular solutes in arbitrary…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maximilien Levesque , Volodymyr Sergiievskyi , Daniel Borgis

We proposed a new extended version of Enskog theory for the description of the self-diffusion coefficient of a colloidal hard-sphere fluid adsorbed in a matrix of disordered hard-sphere obstacles. In a considered approach instead of contact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-26 M. F. Holovko , M. Ya. Korvatska

Thermally excited capillary waves at fluid interfaces in binary liquid mixtures exhibit simultaneously both density and composition fluctuations. Based on a density functional theory for inhomogeneous binary liquid mixtures we derive an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Thorsten Hiester , S. Dietrich , Klaus Mecke

A thermodynamic approach to derive the liquid-glass transition line in the reduced temperature vs reduced density plane for a monatomic Lennard-Jones fluid is presented. The approach makes use of a recent reformulation of the classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Robles , M. López de Haro