Mie potential

The Mie potential was proposed by Gustav Mie in 1903 . It is given by

$\Phi _{12}(r)=\left({\frac {n}{n-m}}\right)\left({\frac {n}{m}}\right)^{m/(n-m)}\epsilon \left[\left({\frac {\sigma }{r}}\right)^{n}-\left({\frac {\sigma }{r}}\right)^{m}\right]$

where:

• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle r := |\mathbf{r}_1 - \mathbf{r}_2|}
• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \Phi_{12}(r) } is the intermolecular pair potential between two particles at a distance r;
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• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \epsilon }  : well depth (energy)

Note that when Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n=12} and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle m=6} this becomes the Lennard-Jones model.

(14,7) model

1. Afshin Eskandari Nasrabad "Monte Carlo simulations of thermodynamic and structural properties of Mie(14,7) fluids", Journal of Chemical Physics 128 154514 (2008)
2. 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

Related reading

• 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)