Rosenfeld's perturbative method [J. Chem. Phys. 98, 8126 (1993)]] for constructing the Helmholtz energy functional of classical systems is applied to studying inhomogeneous Lennard-Jones fluids, in which the key input-the bulk direct correlation function-is obtained from the first-order mean-spherical approximation (FMSA) [J. Chem. Phys. 118, 4140 (2003)]]. Preserving its high fidelity at the b...

the structure of fluids confined by planar walls is studied using density functional theory. the density functional used is a generalized form of the hypernetted chain (hnc) functional which contains a term third order in the density. this term is chosen to ensure that the modified density functional gives the correct bulk pressure. the proposed density functional applied to a lennard-jones flu...

By simulation and theory, we study the probability of observing N molecular centers within molecular sized volumes for a Lennard-Jones fluid near liquid-vapor coexistence. For large volumes and small N, the probability distribution differs markedly from Gaussian. The free energy per unit surface area to form empty volumes (i.e., cavities) is a rapidly varying function of the radius for small ca...

The previous paper [A. A. Veldhorst et al., J. Chem. Phys. 141, 054904 (2014)] demonstrated that the isomorph theory explains the scaling properties of a liquid of flexible chains consisting of ten Lennard-Jones particles connected by rigid bonds. We here investigate the same model with harmonic bonds. The introduction of harmonic bonds almost completely destroys the correlations in the equilib...

molecular dynamics simulation has been performed to analyze the effect of the presence of gold nanoparticle on dynamics of kob-anderson binary lennard-jones (blj) mixture upon supercooling within the framework of the mode coupling theory of the dynamic glass transition. the presence of gold nanoparticle has a direct effect on the liquid structure and causes the peaks of the radial distribution ...

We explain the findings by Di Leonardo et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 6054 (2000)10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.6054] that the effective temperature of a Lennard-Jones glass depends only on the final density in the volume and/or temperature jump that produces the glass. This is not only a property of the Lennard-Jones liquid, but a feature of all strongly correlating liquids. For such liquids data from a...

An interatomic potential based semiclassical theory is proposed to predict the concentration and potential profiles of a Lennard-Jones (LJ) fluid confined in a channel. The inputs to the semiclassical formulation are the LJ parameters of the fluid and the wall, the density of channel wall atoms, and the average concentration of the fluid inside the channel. Using the semiclassical formulation, ...

We present a detailed analysis of the β-relaxation dynamics of a simple glass former, a Lennard-Jones system with a stochastic dynamics. By testing the various predictions of mode-coupling theory, including the recently proposed corrections to the asymptotic scaling laws, we come to the conclusion that in this time regime the dynamics is described very well by this theory.

the virial coefficients can be obtained from statistical mechanics in connection with the intermolecular potentials. the intermolecular potential of polyatomic molecules is usually assumed to consist of a spherically symmetric component plus a contribution due to asphericaity of the molecular charge distribution. in this study, the second virial coefficients have been calculated for n2, co and ...

A combined DFT quantum mechanical and AMBER molecular mechanical potential (QM/MM) is presented for use in molecular modeling and molecular simulations of large biological systems. In our approach we evaluate Lennard-Jones parameters describing the interaction between the quantum mechanical (QM) part of a system, which is described at the B3LYP/6-31+G* level of theory, and the molecular mechani...