Analytic solutions for Baxter's model of sticky hard sphere fluids within closures different from the Percus_Yevick approximation

Details Analytic solutions for Baxter's model of sticky hard sphere fluids within closures different from the Percus_Yevick approximation Analytic solutions for Baxter's model of sticky hard sphere fluids within closures different from the Percus_Yevick approximation

2003-12-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312359v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

30 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in the J. Chem. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1645781

We discuss structural and thermodynamical properties of Baxter's adhesive hard sphere model within a class of closures which includes the Percus-Yevick (PY) one. The common feature of all these closures is to have a direct correlation function vanishing beyond a certain range, each closure being identified by a different approximation within the original square-well region. This allows a common analytical solution of the Ornstein-Zernike integral equation, with the cavity function playing a privileged role. A careful analytical treatment of the equation of state is reported. Numerical comparison with Monte Carlo simulations shows that the PY approximation lies between simpler closures, which may yield less accurate predictions but are easily extensible to multi-component fluids, and more sophisticate closures which give more precise predictions but can hardly be extended to mixtures. In regimes typical for colloidal and protein solutions, however, it is found that the perturbative closures, even when limited to first-order, produce satisfactory results.

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