Hard core Yukawa potential

The hard core Yukawa potential has two forms, the attractive Yukawa potential:

$\Phi _{12}\left(r\right)=\left\{{\begin{array}{lll}\infty &;&r<\sigma \\-\left({\frac {\epsilon \sigma }{r}}\right)\exp \left[-\kappa \left({\frac {r}{\sigma }}-1\right)\right]&;&r\geq \sigma \end{array}}\right.$

and the repulsive form

$\Phi _{12}\left(r\right)=\left\{{\begin{array}{lll}\infty &;&r<\sigma \\\left({\frac {\epsilon \sigma }{r}}\right)\exp \left[-\kappa \left({\frac {r}{\sigma }}-1\right)\right]&;&r\geq \sigma \end{array}}\right.$

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The repulsive form has been used to study charge-stabilised colloid-colloid interactions.

Critical point

For the attractive form of the potential, from a study of the law of corresponding states, one has (Eq. 3 in )

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and (Eq. 4)

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The repulsive form of the potential has no critical point.

Triple points

The triple points for this model have been studied by Azhar and co-workers .

Virial coefficients

For the attractive form of the potential the virial coefficients have been calculated by Naresh and Singh .

Surface tension

Surface tension .

Phase diagram

Main article: Phase diagram of the Yukawa potential

Two-term Yukawa potentials

Both the attractive and the repulsive form have been combined to produce the hard-sphere plus two Yukawa potential (H2Y) .

References

Related reading

• J. Torres-Arenas, L. A. Cervantes, A. L. Benavides, G. A. Chapela, and F. del Río "Discrete perturbation theory for the hard-core attractive and repulsive Yukawa potentials", Journal of Chemical Physics 132 034501 (2010)
• Pedro Orea, Carlos Tapia-Medina, Davide Pini, and Albert Reiner "Thermodynamic properties of short-range attractive Yukawa fluid: Simulation and theory", Journal of Chemical Physics 132 114108 (2010)