Abstract
The phase diagram of the charged hard dumbbell system (hard spheres of opposite unit charge fixed at contact) is obtained with the use of the random phase approximation (RPA). The effect of the impenetrability of charged spheres on charge-charge fluctuations is described by introduction of a modified electrostatic potential. The correlations of ions in a pair are included via a correlation function in the RPA. The coexistence curve is in good agreement with Monte Carlo simulations. The relevance of the theory to the restricted primitive model is discussed.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 6 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - 2004 |
Funding
This work was supported by the NIH Grant No. GM62109-02 and NSF Grant No. DMR-0109610. The authors wish to thank E. Luijten, A. Z. Panagiotopoulos, and J. Jiang for sending their simulation data.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- Statistics and Probability