Multiple-Point and Multiple-Time Correlations Functions in a Hard-Sphere Fluid

Abstract

A recent mode coupling theory of higher-order correlation functions is tested on a simple hard-sphere fluid system at intermediate densities. Multi-point and multi-time correlation functions of the densities of conserved variables are calculated in the hydrodynamic limit and compared to results obtained from event-based molecular dynamics simulations. It is demonstrated that the mode coupling theory results are in excellent agreement with the simulation results provided that dissipative couplings are included in the vertices appearing in the theory. In contrast, simplified mode coupling theories in which the densities obey Gaussian statistics neglect important contributions to both the multi-point and multi-time correlation functions on all time scales.

Second one in a sequence of two (in the first, the formalism was developed). 12 pages REVTeX. 5 figures (eps). Submitted to Phys.Rev.E

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