Heat capacity of square-well fluids of variable width

Details Heat capacity of square-well fluids of variable width Heat capacity of square-well fluids of variable width

2003-04-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0304461v2

Mol. Phys. 101, 2981-2986 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

11 pages, 4 figures; figures now include additional perturbation data; to be published in Mol. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1080/00268970310001597318

We have obtained by Monte Carlo NVT simulations the constant-volume excess heat capacity of square-well fluids for several temperatures, densities and potential widths. Heat capacity is a thermodynamic property much more sensitive to the accuracy of a theory than other thermodynamic quantities, such as the compressibility factor. This is illustrated by comparing the reported simulation data for the heat capacity with the theoretical predictions given by the Barker-Henderson perturbation theory as well as with those given by a non-perturbative theoretical model based on Baxter's solution of the Percus-Yevick integral equation for sticky hard spheres. Both theories give accurate predictions for the equation of state. By contrast, it is found that the Barker-Henderson theory strongly underestimates the excess heat capacity for low to moderate temperatures, whereas a much better agreement between theory and simulation is achieved with the non-perturbative theoretical model, particularly for small well widths, although the accuracy of the latter worsens for high densities and low temperatures, as the well width increases.

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