Binary hard-sphere mixtures

From a theoretical point of view, one of the simplest mixtures amenable to study is that of binary hard spheres. In other words, of the two components one component has a diameter $\sigma _{1}$ and the other component has a diameter $\sigma _{2}$.

See also

• Equations of state for hard sphere mixtures
• Fundamental-measure theory

References

Related reading

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• Yaakov Rosenfeld "Phase Separation of Asymmetric Binary Hard-Sphere Fluids: Self-Consistent Density Functional Theory", Physical Review Letters 72 pp. 3831-3834 (1994)
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• Hong Xu and C Barentin "Freezing of very asymmetric binary hard-sphere mixtures", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 7 pp. L13-L17 (1995)
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