Hard core Yukawa potential

The hard core Yukawa potential has two forms, the attractive Yukawa potential:

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and the repulsive form

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The repulsive form has been used to study charge-stabilised colloid-colloid interactions.

Critical point

For the attractive form of the potential, from a study of the law of corresponding states, one has (Eq. 3 in )

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and (Eq. 4)

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The repulsive form of the potential has no critical point.

Triple points

The triple points for this model have been studied by Azhar and co-workers .

Virial coefficients

For the attractive form of the potential the virial coefficients have been calculated by Naresh and Singh .

Phase diagram

Main article: Phase diagram of the Yukawa potential

References

Related reading

• J. Torres-Arenas, L. A. Cervantes, A. L. Benavides, G. A. Chapela, and F. del Río "Discrete perturbation theory for the hard-core attractive and repulsive Yukawa potentials", Journal of Chemical Physics 132 034501 (2010)