Local measures of fluctuations in inhomogeneous liquids: Statistical mechanics and illustrative applications

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Main Authors: Eckert, Tobias, Stuhlmüller, Nex C. X., Sammüller, Florian, Schmidt, Matthias
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Published: 2023
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author Eckert, Tobias
Stuhlmüller, Nex C. X.
Sammüller, Florian
Schmidt, Matthias
author_facet Eckert, Tobias
Stuhlmüller, Nex C. X.
Sammüller, Florian
Schmidt, Matthias
contents We show in detail how three one-body fluctuation profiles, namely the local compressibility, the local thermal susceptibility, and the reduced density, can be obtained from a statistical mechanical many-body description of classical particle-based systems. We present several different and equivalent routes to the definition of each fluctuation profile, facilitating their explicit numerical calculation in inhomogeneous equilibrium systems. This underlying framework is used for the derivation of further properties such as hard wall contact theorems and novel types of inhomogeneous one-body Ornstein-Zernike equations. The practical accessibility of all three fluctuation profiles is exemplified by grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations that we present for hard sphere, Gaussian core and Lennard-Jones fluids in confinement.
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spellingShingle Local measures of fluctuations in inhomogeneous liquids: Statistical mechanics and illustrative applications
Eckert, Tobias
Stuhlmüller, Nex C. X.
Sammüller, Florian
Schmidt, Matthias
Statistical Mechanics
Soft Condensed Matter
We show in detail how three one-body fluctuation profiles, namely the local compressibility, the local thermal susceptibility, and the reduced density, can be obtained from a statistical mechanical many-body description of classical particle-based systems. We present several different and equivalent routes to the definition of each fluctuation profile, facilitating their explicit numerical calculation in inhomogeneous equilibrium systems. This underlying framework is used for the derivation of further properties such as hard wall contact theorems and novel types of inhomogeneous one-body Ornstein-Zernike equations. The practical accessibility of all three fluctuation profiles is exemplified by grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations that we present for hard sphere, Gaussian core and Lennard-Jones fluids in confinement.
title Local measures of fluctuations in inhomogeneous liquids: Statistical mechanics and illustrative applications
topic Statistical Mechanics
Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07297