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Composition and concentration anomalies for structure and dynamics of Gaussian-core mixtures

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Author(s)

Vincent K. Shen, Mark J. Pond, William P. Krekelberg, Jeffrey R. Errington, Thomas M. Truskett

Abstract

We report molecular dynamics simulation results for two-component fluid mixtures of Gaussian-core particles, focusing on how tracer diffusivities and static pair correlations depend on temperature, particle concentration, and composition. At low particle concentrations, these systems behave like simple atomic mixtures. However, for intermediate concentrations, the single-particle dynamics of the two species largely decouple, giving rise to the following anomalous trends. Increasing either the concentration of the fluid (at fixed composition) or the mole fraction of the larger particles (at fixed particle concentration) enhances the tracer diffusivity of the larger particles, but decreases that of the smaller particles. In fact, at sufficiently high particle concentrations, the larger particles exhibit higher mobility than the smaller particles. Each of these dynamic behaviors is accompanied by a corresponding structural trend that characterizes how either concentration or composition affects the strength of the static pair correlations. Specifically, the dynamic trends observed here are consistent with a single empirical scaling law that relates an appropriately normalized tracer diffusivity to its pair-correlation contribution to the excess entropy.
Citation
Journal of Chemical Physics
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

Gaussian-core fluid, simulation, statistical mechanics
Theoretical chemistry and modeling, Thermochemical properties and Thermodynamics

Citation

Shen, V. , Pond, M. , Krekelberg, W. , Errington, J. and Truskett, T. (2009), Composition and concentration anomalies for structure and dynamics of Gaussian-core mixtures, Journal of Chemical Physics (Accessed November 21, 2024)

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Created August 25, 2009, Updated February 19, 2017