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The '''Mayer ''f''-function''', or ''f-bond'' is defined as (Ref. 1 Chapter 13 Eq. 13.2):
The '''Mayer ''f''-function''', or ''f-bond'' is defined as (Ref. 1 Chapter 13 Eq. 13.2):


:<math>f_{12}=f({\mathbf r}_{12})= \exp\left(-\frac{\Phi_{12}(r)}{k_BT}\right) -1 </math>  
:<math>f_{12}=f({\mathbf r}_{12}) := \exp\left(-\frac{\Phi_{12}(r)}{k_BT}\right) -1 </math>  


where
where

Latest revision as of 18:50, 20 February 2015

The Mayer f-function, or f-bond is defined as (Ref. 1 Chapter 13 Eq. 13.2):

where

In other words, the Mayer function is the Boltzmann factor of the interaction potential, minus one.

Diagrammatically the Mayer f-function is written as

Hard sphere model[edit]

For the hard sphere model the Mayer f-function becomes:

where is the hard sphere diameter.

References[edit]

  1. Joseph Edward Mayer and Maria Goeppert Mayer "Statistical Mechanics" John Wiley and Sons (1940)
  2. Joseph E. Mayer "Contribution to Statistical Mechanics", Journal of Chemical Physics 10 pp. 629-643 (1942)