Seminar über Theorie der kondensierten Materie / TRR146 Seminar

Oct. 26, 2004 at 1:15 p.m. in Newton-Raum (01-122, Bau 2.413)

F. Schmid
friederike.schmid@uni-mainz.de

P. Virnau
virnau@uni-mainz.de

L. Stelzl
lstelzl@uni-mainz.de

Asymptotic decay of correlations in molecular fluids
Dr. Svyatoslav Savenko (Utrecht University)


The understanding of surface phenomena in liquids relies heavily on the knowledge of character of correlations ultimate decay. It has influence on the roughness of the liquid-gas interface and wetting transition, impacts the layering transitions in thin films and the density profiles far from the wall... However no treatment directly applicable to molecular fluids was reported until now. So I am going to discus how to determine the asymptotic decay length scale in the case of molecular liquids, how it differs from the simple fluid case, and finally consider the correlations in a hard-rod fluid.