{
  "id": "1704.06725",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2017-04-22T00:17:21.000Z",
  "updated": "2017-04-22T00:17:21.000Z",
  "title": "Inhomogeneous fluid of penetrable-spheres: application of the random phase approximation",
  "authors": [
    "Yan Xiang",
    "Derek Frydel"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "The focus of the present work is the application of the random phase approximation (RPA), derived in Ref. [D. Frydel and M. Ma, Phys. Rev. E {\\bf 93}, 062112 (2016)] for inhomogeneous fluids, to penetrable-spheres. As penetrable-spheres transform into hard-spheres with increasing interactions, they provide an interesting case for exploring the RPA, its shortcomings and limitations, the weak- versus the strong-coupling limit. Two scenarios taken up by the present study are a one-component and a two-component fluids with symmetric interactions. It is the latter case for which the RPA is particularly useful. In this case the mean-field contributions are cancelled and any contributions from particle interactions are accounted for by correlations. The accuracy of the RPA for this case is the result of a somewhat lucky cancellation of errors.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2017-04-22T00:17:21.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "random phase approximation",
      "inhomogeneous fluid",
      "application",
      "somewhat lucky cancellation",
      "scenarios taken"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}