Communication: inferring the equation of state of a metastable hard-sphere fluid from the equation of state of a hard-sphere mixture at high densities

Andrés Santos; Santos B Yuste; Mariano López de Haro

doi:10.1063/1.3663206

Communication: inferring the equation of state of a metastable hard-sphere fluid from the equation of state of a hard-sphere mixture at high densities

J Chem Phys. 2011 Nov 14;135(18):181102. doi: 10.1063/1.3663206.

Authors

Andrés Santos¹, Santos B Yuste, Mariano López de Haro

Affiliation

¹ Departamento de Física, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, E-06071, Spain. andres@unex.es

PMID: 22088044
DOI: 10.1063/1.3663206

Abstract

A possible approximate route to obtain the equation of state of the monodisperse hard-sphere system in the metastable fluid region from the knowledge of the equation of state of a hard-sphere mixture at high densities is discussed. The proposal is illustrated by using recent Monte Carlo simulation data for the pressure of a binary mixture. It is further shown to exhibit high internal consistency.