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Montero AM, Santos A. Exact equilibrium properties of square-well and square-shoulder disks in single-file confinement. Phys Rev E 2024; 110:024601. [PMID: 39295021 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.110.024601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2024] [Accepted: 07/17/2024] [Indexed: 09/21/2024]
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This study investigates the (longitudinal) thermodynamic and structural characteristics of single-file confined square-well and square-shoulder disks by employing a mapping technique that transforms the original system into a one-dimensional polydisperse mixture of nonadditive rods. Leveraging standard statistical-mechanical techniques, exact results are derived for key properties, including the equation of state, internal energy, radial distribution function, and structure factor. The asymptotic behavior of the radial distribution function is explored, revealing structural changes in the spatial correlations. Additionally, exact analytical expressions for the second virial coefficient are presented. The theoretical results for the thermodynamic and structural properties are validated by our Monte Carlo simulations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ana M Montero
- Departamento de Física, Universidad de Extremadura, E-06006 Badajoz, Spain
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- Departamento de Física, Universidad de Extremadura, E-06006 Badajoz, Spain
- Instituto de Computación Científica Avanzada (ICCAEx), Universidad de Extremadura, E-06006 Badajoz, Spain
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Campos-Villalobos G, Dijkstra M, Patti A. Nonconventional Phases of Colloidal Nanorods with a Soft Corona. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:158001. [PMID: 33929217 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.158001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Using computer simulations, we investigate the phase behavior of hard-core spherocylinders with a length-to-diameter ratio L/σ=5 and coated by a soft deformable corona of length λ/σ=1.35. When quasi-two-dimensional layers are formed in smectic and solid phases at low temperatures, the competition between the two intrinsic length scales of the parallel aligned particles leads to the stabilization of different in-plane lattices of nonconventional symmetry, including low-density hexagonal, square, and high-density hexagonal crystals, as well as an intriguing dodecagonal quasicrystal. Our Letter opens up the opportunity to control the assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles into structures with preengineered symmetry-dependent physical properties.
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- Gerardo Campos-Villalobos
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester, Sackville Street, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
- Soft Condensed Matter, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Department of Physics, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Soft Condensed Matter, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Department of Physics, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester, Sackville Street, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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Sastre F, Sotelo-Serna MG, Moreno-Hilario E, Benavides AL. Helmholtz free-energy high-temperature perturbation expansion for square-well and square-shoulder potentials. Mol Phys 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2021.1887527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Francisco Sastre
- Departamento de Ingeniería Física, División de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Campus León de la Universidad de Guanajuato, León, Guanajuato, Mexico
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Física, División de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Campus León de la Universidad de Guanajuato, León, Guanajuato, Mexico
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Santos A, Yuste SB, López de Haro M. Structural and thermodynamic properties of hard-sphere fluids. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:120901. [PMID: 33003724 DOI: 10.1063/5.0023903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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This Perspective article provides an overview of some of our analytical approaches to the computation of the structural and thermodynamic properties of single-component and multicomponent hard-sphere fluids. For the structural properties, they yield a thermodynamically consistent formulation, thus improving and extending the known analytical results of the Percus-Yevick theory. Approximate expressions linking the equation of state of the single-component fluid to the one of the multicomponent mixtures are also discussed.
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- Andrés Santos
- Departamento de Física and Instituto de Computación Científica Avanzada (ICCAEx), Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz E-06006, Spain
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- Departamento de Física and Instituto de Computación Científica Avanzada (ICCAEx), Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz E-06006, Spain
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- Instituto de Energías Renovables, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (U.N.A.M.), Temixco, Morelos 62580, Mexico
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Coquand O, Sperl M. Temperature expansions in the square-shoulder fluid. I. The Wiener–Hopf function. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:124112. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5142661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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- O. Coquand
- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 51170 Köln, Germany
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 51170 Köln, Germany
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany
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Coquand O, Sperl M. Temperature expansions in the square-shoulder fluid. II. Thermodynamics. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:124113. [PMID: 32241153 DOI: 10.1063/1.5142662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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In Paper I [O. Coquand and M. Sperl, J. Chem. Phys. 152, 124112 (2020)], we derived analytical expressions for the structure factor of the square-shoulder potential in a perturbative way around the high- and low-temperature regimes. Here, various physical properties of these solutions are derived. In particular, we investigate the large wave number sector and relate it to the contact values of the pair-correlation function. Then, the thermoelastic properties of the square-shoulder fluids are discussed.
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- O Coquand
- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 51170 Köln, Germany
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 51170 Köln, Germany
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Gabriëlse A, Löwen H, Smallenburg F. Low-Temperature Crystal Structures of the Hard Core Square Shoulder Model. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2017; 10:E1280. [PMID: 29112168 PMCID: PMC5706227 DOI: 10.3390/ma10111280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2017] [Revised: 10/22/2017] [Accepted: 11/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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In many cases, the stability of complex structures in colloidal systems is enhanced by a competition between different length scales. Inspired by recent experiments on nanoparticles coated with polymers, we use Monte Carlo simulations to explore the types of crystal structures that can form in a simple hard-core square shoulder model that explicitly incorporates two favored distances between the particles. To this end, we combine Monte Carlo-based crystal structure finding algorithms with free energies obtained using a mean-field cell theory approach, and draw phase diagrams for two different values of the square shoulder width as a function of the density and temperature. Moreover, we map out the zero-temperature phase diagram for a broad range of shoulder widths. Our results show the stability of a rich variety of crystal phases, such as body-centered orthogonal (BCO) lattices not previously considered for the square shoulder model.
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- Alexander Gabriëlse
- Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
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de Haro ML, Yuste SB, Santos A. Theoretical approaches to the structural properties of the square-shoulder fluid. Mol Phys 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2016.1154199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- M. López de Haro
- Departamento de Termociencias, Instituto de Energías Renovables, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (U.N.A.M.), Temixco, Mexico
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- Departamento de Física and Instituto de Computación Científica Avanzada (ICCAEx), Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain
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- Departamento de Física and Instituto de Computación Científica Avanzada (ICCAEx), Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain
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Hollingshead KB, Truskett TM. Predicting the structure of fluids with piecewise constant interactions: Comparing the accuracy of five efficient integral equation theories. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 91:043307. [PMID: 25974612 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.043307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We use molecular dynamics simulations to test integral equation theory predictions for the structure of fluids of spherical particles with eight different piecewise-constant pair-interaction forms comprising a hard core and a combination of two shoulders and/or wells. Since model pair potentials like these are of interest for discretized or coarse-grained representations of effective interactions in complex fluids (e.g., for computationally intensive inverse optimization problems), we focus here on assessing how accurately their properties can be predicted by analytical or simple numerical closures including Percus-Yevick, hypernetted-chain, and reference hypernetted-chain closures and first-order mean spherical and modified first-order mean spherical approximations. To make quantitative comparisons between the predicted and simulated radial distribution functions, we introduce a cumulative structural error metric. For equilibrium fluid state points of these models, we find that the reference hypernetted-chain closure is the most accurate of the tested approximations as characterized by this metric or related thermodynamic quantities.
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- Kyle B Hollingshead
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Hoppe T. Singular value decomposition of the radial distribution function for hard sphere and square well potentials. PLoS One 2013; 8:e75792. [PMID: 24143174 PMCID: PMC3797047 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2013] [Accepted: 08/20/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We compute the singular value decomposition of the radial distribution function g(r) for hard sphere, and square well solutions. We find that g(r) decomposes into a small set of basis vectors allowing for an extremely accurate representation at all interpolated densities and potential strengths. In addition, we find that the coefficient vectors describing the magnitude of each basis vector are well described by a low-order polynomial. We provide a program to calculate g(r) in this compact representation for the investigated parameter range.
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- Travis Hoppe
- National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Bárcenas M, Odriozola G, Orea P. Structure and coexistence properties of shoulder–square well fluids. J Mol Liq 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2012.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Hlushak SP, Hlushak PA, Trokhymchuk A. An improved first-order mean spherical approximation theory for the square-shoulder fluid. J Chem Phys 2013; 138:164107. [PMID: 23635111 DOI: 10.1063/1.4801659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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The theory, which utilizes an exponential enhancement of the first-order mean spherical approximation (FMSA) for the radial distribution functions of the hard-core plus square-well fluid, is adopted to study the properties of the simplest model of the core-softened fluids, i.e., the hard spheres with a square-shoulder interaction. The results for structure and thermodynamic properties are reported and compared against both the Monte Carlo simulation data as well as with those obtained within the conventional FMSA theory. We found that in the region of low densities and low temperatures, where the conventional FMSA theory fails, the exponential-based FMSA theory besides being qualitatively correct also provides with a notable quantitative improvement of the theoretical description.
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- S P Hlushak
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA.
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Dubinin NÉ, Yuryev AA, Vatolin NA. Pseudopotential calculation of the structure and thermodynamics of liquid alkali metals with a square-well model as a reference system. J STRUCT CHEM+ 2012. [DOI: 10.1134/s0022476612030080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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