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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 120, Issue 10, Pages 4844-4851Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1647520
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The thermodynamic properties of fluids with very soft repulsive-core potentials, resembling those of some liquid metals, are predicted with unprecedented accuracy using a new first-order thermodynamic perturbation theory. This theory is an extension of Mansoori-Canfield/Rasaiah-Stell (MCRS) perturbation theory, obtained by including a configuration integral correction recently identified by Mon, who evaluated it by computer simulation. In this work we derive an analytic expression for Mon's correction in terms of the radial distribution function of the soft-core fluid, g(0)(r), approximated using Lado's self-consistent extension of Weeks-Chandler-Andersen (WCA) theory. Comparisons with WCA and MCRS predictions show that our new extended-MCRS theory outperforms other first-order theories when applied to fluids with very soft inverse-power potentials (nless than or equal to6), and predicts free energies that are within 0.3kT of simulation results up to the fluid freezing point. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.
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