Friday, August 3, 2012

1208.0465 (H. Xu et al.)

Impulsive correction to the elastic moduli obtained using the
stress-fluctuation formalism in systems with truncated pair potential
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H. Xu, J. P. Wittmer, P. Polińska, J. Baschnagel
The truncation of a pair potential at a distance r_cut is well-known to imply in general an impulsive correction to the pressure and other moments of the first derivatives of the potential. That depending on r_cut the truncation may also be of relevance to higher derivatives is shown theoretically for the Born contributions to the elastic moduli obtained using the stress-fluctuation formalism in d dimensions. Focusing on isotropic liquids for which the shear modulus G must vanish by construction, the predicted corrections are tested numerically for binary mixtures and polydisperse Lennard-Jones beads in, respectively, d=3 and d=2 dimensions.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0465

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