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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 84, Issue 5, Pages 911-914Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.911
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The structure of polydisperse hard sphere fluids, in the presence of a wall, is studied by the Rosenfeld density functional theory. Within this approach, the local excess free energy depends on only four combinations of the full set of density fields. The case of continuous polydispersity thereby becomes tractable. We predict, generically, an oscillatory size segregation close to the wall, and connect this, by a perturbation theory for narrow distributions, with the reversible work for changing the size of one particle in a monodisperse reference fluid.
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