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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 5: Soft matter

DY 5.4: Talk

Monday, March 23, 2009, 15:30–15:45, ZEU 255

Test particle limit for the pair structure of quenched-annealed fluid mixtures — •Matthias Schmidt — Theoretische Physik II, Universität Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany

A novel route to the pair structure of quenched-annealed fluid mixtures is presented. The bulk two-body partial pair correlation functions of the mixture are identified with the one-body density distributions in an external potential that models a test particle fixed at the origin. Quenched-annealed (or replica) density functional theory is used to calculate the inhomogeneous one-body density distributions. A closed theory is obtained by using an exact sum rule that equates two different expressions for the cross pair correlation function between unlike species. Results for binary quenched-annealed hard sphere mixtures demonstrate good agreement with computer simulation data, improving over results from the replica Ornstein-Zernike equations using the direct correlation functions, obtained as second functional derivatives of the quenched-annealed excess free energy functional, as input.