Negative virial coefficients and the dominance of loose packed diagrams for D-dimensional hard spheres

DOI10.1023/B:JOSS.0000013960.83555.7DzbMATH Open1073.82553arXivcond-mat/0303100MaRDI QIDQ702929FDOQ702929

Authors: Nathan Clisby, Barry M. McCoy 

Publication date: 19 January 2005

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the virial coefficients B_k of hard spheres in D dimensions by means of Monte-Carlo integration. We find that B_5 is positive in all dimensions but that B_6 is negative for all D >= 6. For 7<=k<=17 we compute sets of Ree-Hoover diagrams and find that either for large D or large k the dominant diagrams are "loose packed". We use these results to study the radius of convergence and the validity of the many approximations used for the equations of state for hard spheres.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303100

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zbMATH Keywords

Hard spheresvirial expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27)

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