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Figure 2.3. Pair correlation function (radial distribution function) between the halogen atom in HX and the hydrogen in solvent water.

In general, it is diflfieult to quantify stnietural properties of disordered matter via experimental probes as with x-ray or neutron seattering. Sueh probes measure statistieally averaged properties like the pair-correlation function, also ealled the radial distribution function. The pair-eorrelation fiinetion measures the average distribution of atoms from a partieular site. 

Unlike the solid state, the liquid state cannot be characterized by a static description. In a liquid, bonds break and refomi continuously as a fiinction of time. The quantum states in the liquid are similar to those in amorphous solids in the sense that the system is also disordered. The liquid state can be quantified only by considering some ensemble averaging and using statistical measures. For example, consider an elemental liquid. Just as for amorphous solids, one can ask what is the distribution of atoms at a given distance from a reference atom on average, i.e. the radial distribution function or the pair correlation function can also be defined for a liquid. In scattering experiments on liquids, a structure factor is measured. The radial distribution fiinction, g r), is related to the stnicture factor, S q), by... 

It is clear that Eq. (85) is numerically reliable provided is sufficiently small. However, a detailed investigation in Ref. 69 reveals that can be as large as some ten percent of the diameter of a fluid molecule. Likewise, rj should not be smaller than, say, the distance at which the radial pair correlation function has its first minimum (corresponding to the nearest-neighbor shell). Under these conditions, and if combined with a neighbor list technique, savings in computer time of up to 40% over conventional implementations are measured for the first (canonical) step of the algorithm detailed in Sec. IIIB. These are achieved because, for pairwise interactions, only 1+ 2 contributions need to be computed here before i is moved U and F2), and only contributions need to be evaluated after i is displaced... 

The presented result is different from the radial correlation function y(r) = An js21 (s)(sm 2nrs)/2nrs) ds, which is computed from the isotropic scattering intensity by means of the three-dimensional Fourier transform. 

Figure 8.23. The chord length distributions g (r) and g (—r) found in the 2nd derivative y" (r) of the radial correlation function. The example shows g(r) of a suspension of 10 wt.-% of silica (reproduced from a handout of DENISE TCHOUBAR)...

Figure 8.35 shows for homogeneous identical spheres the radial correlation function (Guinier and Fournet [65] p. 12-19 Letcher and Schmidt [192])... 

Figure 8.35. The homogeneous sphere of radius R. Radial correlation function, ys (r), distance distribution function (DDF) ps (r) and chord length distribution (CLD) gs (r)...

Figure 23 Isosurface of the intrachain distinct part of the van Hove function projected onto the time-distance plane. For t —> 0, one observes the intrachain pair correlation function along the radial axes. On the average time scale of a torsional transition, a bonded neighbor moves into the position that the center particle occupied at time zero i.e., the chain slithers along its contour.

The most widely used measure of structure in fluids is the pair correlation function (1-6) (or radial distribution function) gij(r). It is defined so that... 

Much more detailed information about the microscopic structure of water at interfaces is provided by the pair correlation function which gives the joint probability of finding an atom of type/r at a position ri, and an atom of type v at a position T2, relative to the probability one would expect from a uniform (ideal gas) distribution. In a bulk homogeneous liquid, gfn, is a function of the radial distance ri2 = Iri - T2I only, but at the interface one must also specify the location zi, zj of the two atoms relative to the surface. We expect the water pair correlation function to give us information about the water structure near the metal, as influenced both by the interaction potential and the surface corrugation, and to reduce to the bulk correlation Inunction when both zi and Z2 are far enough from the surface. 

First we discuss and construct monodisperse two-dimensional arrangements of impenetrable cylinders in terms of radial distance correlation functions, the lateral packing fraction and number density. In the second step, these hard cylinders are covered by the mean electronic density functions of the RISA chain segment ensemble. Last of all, the Fourier transformation and final averaging is... 

The radial distance distribution in simple atomic and molecular fluids is determined essentially by the exclusion volume of the particles. Zemike and Prins [12] have used this fact to construct a one-dimensional fluid model and calculated its radial distance correlation function and its scattering function. The only interaction between the particles is given by their exclusion volume (which is, of course, an exclusion length in the one-dimensional case) making the particles impenetrable. The statistical properties of these one-dimensional fluids are completely determined by their free volume fraction which facilitates the configurational fluctuations. 

To obtain the radial distance correlation function one has to take the average of many system configurations. The fluctuation parameter g can be derived from these functions easily. 

Fig. 1.19. The radial pair correlation function of the steady-state overlayer generated by the A + B -> 0 annihilation reaction, with no particle diffusion. Averaged over five simulations.

The static structure factor, S(q), appearing in the above expression is calculated by using the one-dimensional Fourier transform of the radial distribution function. The Fourier-transformed two-particle direct correlation function c(q) is obtained through the well-known Omstein-Zemike relation [21]. 

Calculational procedure of all the dynamic variables appearing in the above expressions—namely, the dynamic structure factor F(q,t) and its inertial part, Fo(q,t), and the self-dynamic structure factor Fs(q,t) and its inertial part, Fq (q, t) —is similar to that in three-dimensional systems, simply because the expressions for these quantities remains the same except for the terms that include the dimensionality. Cv(t) is calculated so that it is fully consistent with the frequency-dependent friction. In order to calculate either VACF or diffusion coefficient, we need the two-particle direct correlation function, c(x), and the radial distribution function, g(x). Here x denotes the separation between the centers of two LJ rods. In order to make the calculations robust, we have used the g(x) obtained from simulations. 

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