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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 124, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2167646
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The mean spherical approximation (MSA) can be solved semianalytically for the Gaussian core model (GCM) and yields exactly the same expressions for the energy and the virial equations. Taking advantage of this semianalytical framework, we apply the concept of the self-consistent Ornstein-Zernike approximation (SCOZA) to the GCM: a state-dependent function K is introduced in the MSA closure relation which is determined to enforce thermodynamic consistency between the compressibility route and either the energy or virial route. Utilizing standard thermodynamic relations this leads to two differential equations for the function K that have to be solved numerically. Generalizing our concept we propose an integrodifferential-equation-based formulation of the SCOZA which, although requiring a fully numerical solution, has the advantage that it is no longer restricted to the availability of an analytic solution for a particular system. Rather it can be used for an arbitrary potential and even in combination with other closure relations, such as a modification of the hypernetted chain approximation. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
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