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Polydisperse hard spheres at a hard wall | | Matteo Buzzacchi
; Ignacio Pagonabarraga
; Nigel B. Wilding
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15 Jul 2004 | | Subject: | Soft Condensed Matter; Statistical Mechanics | cond-mat.soft cond-mat.stat-mech | | Abstract: | The structural properties of polydisperse hard spheres in the presence of a hard wall are investigated via Monte Carlo simulation and density functional theory (DFT). Attention is focussed on the local density distribution $
ho(sigma,z)$, measuring the number density of particles of diameter $sigma$ at a distance $z$ from the wall. The form of $
ho(sigma,z)$ is obtained for bulk volume fractions $eta_b=0.2$ and $eta_b=0.4$ for two choices of the bulk parent distribution: a top-hat form, which we study for degrees of polydispersity $delta=11.5%$ and $delta=40.4%$, and a truncated Schulz form having $delta=40.7%$. Excellent overall agreement is found between the DFT and simulation results, particularly at $eta_b=0.2$. A detailed analysis of $
ho(sigma,z)$ confirms the presence of oscillatory size segregation effects observed in a previous DFT study (Pagonabarraga {em et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {f 84}, 911 (2000)). For large $delta$, the character of these oscillation is observed to depend strongly on the shape of the parent distribution. In the vicinity of the wall, attractive $sigma$-dependent depletion interactions are found to greatly enhance the density of the largest particles. The local degree of polydispersity $delta(z)$ is suppressed in this region, while further from the wall it exhibits oscillations. | | Source: | arXiv, cond-mat/0407390 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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