The Mie potential was proposed by Gustav Mie in 1903. It is given by
where:
- is the intermolecular pair potential between two particles at a distance r;
- is the diameter (length), i.e. the value of at ;
- : well depth (energy)
Note that when and this becomes the Lennard-Jones model.
(14,7) model
- Afshin Eskandari Nasrabad "Monte Carlo simulations of thermodynamic and structural properties of Mie(14,7) fluids", Journal of Chemical Physics 128 154514 (2008)
- Afshin Eskandari Nasrabad, Nader Mansoori Oghaz, and Behzad Haghighi "Transport properties of Mie(14,7) fluids: Molecular dynamics simulation and theory", Journal of Chemical Physics 129 024507 (2008)
References
- Gustav Mie "Zur kinetischen Theorie der einatomigen Körper", Annalen der Physik 11 pp. 657-697 (1903) (check this reference)
- Pedro Orea, Yuri Reyes-Mercado, Yurko Duda "Some universal trends of the Mie(n,m) fluid thermodynamics", Physics Letters A 372 pp. 7024-7027 (2008)