Density Functional for Anisotropic Fluids

Details Density Functional for Anisotropic Fluids Density Functional for Anisotropic Fluids

2002-08-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208449v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

To appear in J. Physics: Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/14/46/323

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 new approach by calculating the location of the the nematic-isotropic transition in systems of hard spherocylinders and hard ellipsoids. The results are compared with existing simulation data. Our functional predicts the location of the transition much more accurately than the Onsager functional, and almost as good as the theory by Parsons and Lee. We argue that it might be suited to study inhomogeneous systems.

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