Variational approach to Yukawa fluids. I. Thermodynamics.

Authors

S A Khrapak, A G Khrapak

Published in

Physical review. E. Volume 114. Issue 1-2. Pages 015216.

Abstract

The excess energy, entropy, and pressure of a strongly coupled Yukawa fluid are calculated from the variational approach using the fluid of hard spheres as a reference system. As in the case of the one-component plasma, the Percus-Yevick virial entropy is appropriate for such calculations and delivers remarkable agreement with available results from molecular-dynamics simulations. The agreement with the molecular-dynamics results is particularly impressive in the strongly coupled regime, making this approach a useful predictive tool when numerical data are scarce or not yet available. As an application of the variational approach, we estimate the location of the melting curve in the regime of sufficiently strong screening.

PMID:
42629937
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