6 research outputs found
Soft core thermodynamics from self-consistent hard core fluids
In an effort to generalize the self-consistent Ornstein-Zernike approximation
(SCOZA) -- an accurate liquid-state theory that has been restricted so far to
hard-core systems -- to arbitrary soft-core systems we study a combination of
SCOZA with a recently developed perturbation theory. The latter was constructed
by Ben-Amotz and Stell [J. Phys. Chem. B 108,6877-6882 (2004)] as a
reformulation of the Week-Chandler-Andersen perturbation theory directly in
terms of an arbitrary hard-sphere reference system. We investigate the accuracy
of the combined approach for the Lennard-Jones fluid by comparison with
simulation data and pure perturbation theory predictions and determine the
dependence of the thermodynamic properties and the phase behavior on the choice
of the effective hard-core diameter of the reference system.Comment: 38 pages, 10 figure
Liquid-vapor transition of systems with mean field universality class
We have considered a system where the interaction, v(r) = v_IS(r) + xi^2
v_MF(r), is given as a linear combination of two potentials, each of which
being characterized with a well-defined critical behavior: for v_IS(r) we have
chosen the potential of the restricted primitive model which is known to belong
to the Ising 3D (IS) universality class, while for v_MF(r) we have considered a
long-range interaction in the Kac-limit, displaying mean field (MF) behavior.
We study the performance of two theoretical approaches and of computer
simulations in the critical region for this particular system and give a
detailed comparison between theories and simulation of the critical region and
the location of the critical point. Both, theory and simulation give evidence
that the system belongs to the MF universality class for any positive value of
xi and that it shows only non-classical behavior for xi=0. While in this
limiting case theoretical approaches are known to fail, we find good agreement
for the critical properties between the theoretical approaches and the
simulations for xi^2 larger than 0.05.Comment: 9 pages, 11 figures, 3 table
Liquid-vapor transition of systems with mean field universality class
36 pagesWe have considered a system where the interaction, , is given as a linear combination of two potentials, each of which being characterized with a well-defined critical behavior: for we have chosen the potential of the restricted primitive model which is known to belong to the Ising 3D (IS) universality class, while for we have considered a long-range interaction in the Kac-limit, displaying mean field (MF) behaviour. We study the performance of two theoretical approaches and of computer simulations in the critical region for this particular system and give a detailed comparison between theories and simulation of the critical region and the location of the critical point. Both, theory and simulation give evidence that the system belongs to the MF universality class for any positive value of and that it shows only non-classical behavior for . While in this limiting case theoretical approaches are known to fail, we find good agreement for the critical properties between the theoretical approaches and the simulations for larger than 0.05