Depletion potential in hard-sphere mixtures: theory and applications

Details Depletion potential in hard-sphere mixtures: theory and applications Depletion potential in hard-sphere mixtures: theory and applications

2000-05-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0005357v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.62.5360

We present a versatile density functional approach (DFT) for calculating the depletion potential in general fluid mixtures. In contrast to brute force DFT, our approach requires only the equilibrium density profile of the small particles {\em before} the big (test) particle is inserted. For a big particle near a planar wall or a cylinder or another fixed big particle the relevant density profiles are functions of a single variable, which avoids the numerical complications inherent in brute force DFT. We implement our approach for additive hard-sphere mixtures. By investigating the depletion potential for high size asymmetries we assess the regime of validity of the well-known Derjaguin approximation for hard-sphere mixtures and argue that this fails. We provide an accurate parametrization of the depletion potential in hard-sphere fluids which should be useful for effective Hamiltonian studies of phase behavior and colloid structure.

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