A new method is proposed for a quantitative investigation of interchain interactions in a poor solvent within the framework of a Lifshits type mean-field approximation. Density distributions and interaction free energy for two globules equilibrated at an arbitrary distance ( from each other are calculated. The corresponding pair virial coefficient and coexistence binodal curve in the second vir...

Abstract. Quantum effects in statistical mechanics are important when the thermal wavelength is of the order of, or greater than, the mean interatomic spacing. This is examined at depth taking the example of a hard-sphere Boltzmann gas. Using the virial expansion for the equation of state, it is shown that the interaction energy of a classical hard-sphere gas is exactly zero. When the (second) ...

Second dielectric virial coefficients BZ(T) of the rare gases Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe are calculated in a broad range of temperature using accurate HFD-type interatomic interaction potentials and available information on the trace of the pair polarizability Aa. It is shown that the experimentally determined temperature-variation of BC(T) cannot be reproduced by existing theories. However, it is obse...

A simulation technique is described for quantifying the contribution of three-body interactions to the thermodynamical properties of coarse-grained representations of complex fluids. The method is based on a new approach for determining virial coefficients from the measured volume-dependent asymptote of a certain structural function. By comparing the third virial coefficient B3 for a complex fl...

A single-time quantum transport equation, which includes effects beyond the quasiparticle approximation, is derived for Fermi-systems in the framework of non-equilibrium real-time Green’s functions theory. Ternary correlations are incorporated in the kinetic description via a cluster expansion for the self-energies (e.g., the transport vertex and the width) truncated at the level of three-body ...

We report second and third virial coefficients for the system CO2-H2O, calculated via cluster integrals using quantitative molecular models taken from the literature. Considered models include (1) fits to highly accurate ab initio calculations of the potential energy surfaces, and (2) semi-empirical Gaussian Charge Polarizable Models (GCPM). Three-body effects are found to be essential for obta...

Lee replies to the comment on ”Statistical Mechanics of Non-Abelian ChernSimons Particles” by C. R. Hage PACS number(s): Typeset using REVTEX 1 Lee Replies: I recently evaluated [1] the second virial coefficient for the two-dimensional gas of non-Abelian Chern-Simons particles (NACS) [2] which obey the non-Abelian braid statistics and showed that the coefficient is not periodic in the induced s...

A microscopic approach is presented to describe the contribution to the thermal diffusion coefficient of colloids due to intercolloidal particle interactions. An exact expression for the leading-order virial coefficient of the thermal diffusion coefficient of interacting colloidal spheres is derived in terms of the intercolloidal pair-interaction potential and hydrodynamic interaction functions...

We study whether dry merger-driven size growth of massive elliptical galaxies depends on their initial structural concentration, and analyse the validity of the homology hypothesis for virial mass determination in massive ellipticals grown by dry mergers. High-resolution simulations of a few realistic merger trees, starting with compact progenitors of different structural concentrations (Sérsic...