Second virial coefficient for a d-dimensional Lennard-Jones (2n-n) system

An exact analytic form for the second virial coefficient, valid for the entire range of temperature, is presented for the Lennard-Jones fluid in this paper. It is derived by making variable transformation that gives rise to the Hamiltonian mimicking a harmonic oscillator-like dynamics for negative energy. It is given in terms of parabolic cylinder functions or confluent hypergeometric functions. Exact limiting laws for the second virial coefficient in the limits of low and hi...

In many fields of statistical physics, for instance in the study of the liquid-gas phase transition in finite nuclear matter, the Virial coefficients of the Fermi gas play a major role. In this note, we provide relations, sum rules, analytical formulas and numerical values for such coefficients.

Liquids displaying strong virial-potential energy correlations conform to an approximate density scaling of their structural and dynamical observables. This scaling property does not extend to the entire phase diagram, in general. The validity of the scaling can be quantified by a correlation coefficient. In this work a simple scheme to predict the correlation coefficient and the density-scaling exponent is presented. Although this scheme is exact only in the dilute gas regim...

This paper investigates the relation between the density-scaling exponent $\gamma$ and the virial potential-energy correlation coefficient $R$ at several thermodynamic state points in three dimensions for the generalized $(2n,n)$ Lennard-Jones (LJ) system for $n=4, 9, 12, 18$, as well as for the standard $n=6$ LJ system in two, three, and four dimensions. The state points studied include many low-density states at which the virial potential-energy correlations are not strong....

In this paper, we generally expressed the virial expansion of ideal quantum gases by the heat kernel coefficients for the corresponding Laplace type operator. As examples, we give the virial coefficients for quantum gases in $d$-dimensional confined space and spheres, respectively. Our results show that, the relative correction from the boundary to the second virial coefficient is independent of the dimension and it always enhances the quantum exchange interaction. In $d$-dim...

The asymptotic expansion for $T\rightarrow 0$ from Byung Chan Eu of $B_2(T)=-16\sqrt{2\pi}v_0e^{\varepsilon\beta}(\varepsilon\beta)^{3/2} \biggl[ 1+\dfrac{19}{16\epsilon\beta}+\dfrac{105}{512(\epsilon\beta)^2}\dots \biggr]$ is wrong. The correct expression is $B_2(T)=-2\sqrt{2\pi}v_0e^{\varepsilon\beta}(\varepsilon\beta)^{-1/2}\biggl[ 1+\dfrac{15}{16\varepsilon\beta}+\dfrac{945}{512(\varepsilon\beta)^2} +\dots\biggr]$.

The fourth virial coefficient is calculated exactly for a fluid of hard spheres in odd dimensions up to 11.

Third and higher order quantum virial coefficients require the solution of the corresponding quantum many-body problem. Nevertheless, in an earlier paper (Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 260402 (2012)) we proposed that the higher-order cluster integrals of a dilute unitary fermionic gas may be approximated in terms of the two-body cluster, together with an appropriate suppression factor. Although not exact, this ansatz gave a fair agreement up to fugacity z=6 with the experimentally ob...

We propose a new semi empirical expression of the virial coefficients for a hard sphere fluid which is valid in the disordered phase over the whole density range. The results are in good agreement with the numerical data and better than those of the well-known Carnahan & Starling equation of state in the domain of validity of the later; moreover this new expression accounts for the singularity which is required for the equation of state at the close random packing limit.

The second virial coefficient for the Mie potential is evaluated using the method of brackets. This method converts a definite integral into a series in the parameters of the problem, in this case this is the temperature $T$. The results obtained here are consistent with some known special cases, such as the Lenard-Jones potential. The asymptotic properties of the second virial coefficient in molecular thermodynamic systems and complex fluid modeling are described in the limi...