Test of a universality ansatz for the contact values of the radial distribution functions of hard-sphere mixtures near a hard wall

Abstract

Recent Monte Carlo simulation results for the contact values of polydisperse hard-sphere mixtures at a hard planar wall are considered in the light of a universality assumption made in approximate theoretical approaches. It is found that the data seem to fulfill the universality ansatz reasonably well, thus opening up the possibility of inferring properties of complicated systems from the study of simpler ones

arXiv comment9 pages, 2 figures; v2: minor changes; to be published in the special issue of Molecular Physics dedicated to the Seventh Liblice Conference on the Statistical Mechanics of Liquids (Lednice, Czech Republic, June 11-16, 2006)

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