The virial expansion

The same result can also be obtained directly from the virial equation of state given above and the low-density fonn of g(r). B2(T) is called the second virial coefficient and the expansion of P in powers of is known as the virial expansion, of which the leading non-ideal temi is deduced above. The higher-order temis in the virial expansion for P and in the density expansion of g(r) can be obtained using the methods of cluster expansion and cumulant expansion. 

In the thennodynamic limit (N x, F -> oo withA7F= p), this is just the virial expansion for the pressure, with 7,(7) identified as the second virial coefficient... 

The PirialExpansion. Many equations of state have been proposed for gases, but the virial equation is the only one having a firm basis in theory (1,3). The pressure-expHcit form of the virial expansion is... 

Statistical mechanics provides physical significance to the virial coefficients (18). For the expansion in 1/ the term BjV arises because of interactions between pairs of molecules (eq. 11), the term C/ k, because of three-molecule interactions, etc. Because two-body interactions are much more common than higher order interactions, tmncated forms of the virial expansion are typically used. If no interactions existed, the virial coefficients would be 2ero and the virial expansion would reduce to the ideal gas law Z = 1). 

For supercritical temperatures, it is satisfactory to ever-higher pressures as the temperature increases. For pressures above the range where Eq. (4-190) is useful, but below the critical pressure, the virial expansion in density truncated to three terms is usually suitable ... 

By analogy, the virial expansion of the bulk molecular property X (such as the dielectric polarization) is written... 

The equilibrium between a pure solid and a gaseous mixture is one of very few classes of solution for which an exact treatment can be made by the methods of statistical mechanics. The earliest work on the theory of such solutions was based on empirical equations, such as those of van der Waals,45 of Keyes,44 and of Beattie and Bridgemann.3 However, the only equation of state of a gas mixture that can be derived rigorously is the virial expansion,46 66... 

When the virial expansion (truncated after the third term) is substituted into Eq. (6), we obtain... 

The analogy with the virial expansion of PF for a real gas in powers of 1/F, where the excluded volume occupies an equivalent role, is obvious. If the gas molecules can be regarded as point particles which exert no forces on one another, u = 0, the second and higher virial coefficients (42, Azy etc.) vanish, and the gas behaves ideally. Similarly in the dilute polymer solutions when w = 0, i.e., at 1 = , Eqs. (70), (71), and (72) reduce to vanT Hoff s law... 

Coefficients in the virial expansion of the osmotic pressure as a power series in the concentration c (Chap. XII et seq.). 

If the gas of charges (plasma) is sufficiently dilute, we could hope a priori that its equation of state would be described by the virial expansion ... 

Finally, we study the structure of the generalized Boltzmann operator. It can be expressed in terms of the transport operator, which allows one to obtain the virial expansion of the generalized Boltzmann equation. The remarkable point here is that the generalized Boltzmann operator can be expressed in terms of non-connected contributions to the transport operator. This happens for the correction proportional to c3 (c = concentration) and for the following terms in the virial expansion of the generalized Boltzmann operator. 

Let us mention first the work of Stecki who expanded Bogolubov s results in a series in A28 and who with Taylor showed that this expansion is identical to all orders in A with the generalized Boltzmann operator (85).29 Since the method is rather different from the virial expansions which we present here, we give in Appendix A.III the major thoughts of this general work valid for any concentration. 

Another remarkable point is the appearance in [Q(t0)Yfirst time when n = 4 (we cannot have two 6LW) with no particle in common if we do not have at least four particles), but also exist to higher orders in the concentration. Their evaluation necessitates some delicate mathematical manipulations (application of the factorization theorem) but the extension of this technique to the higher-order terms of the virial expansion does not seem to pose any new problem. 

Added in Proof.] We do not here discuss the logarithmic singularities which occur in the virial expansion and have recently been reported by I. Oppenheim and K. Kawasaki [Phys. Rev. 139A, 1763 (1965)]. 

The macroscopic properties of a material are related intimately to the interactions between its constituent particles, be they atoms, ions, molecules, or colloids suspended in a solvent. Such relationships are fairly well understood for cases where the particles are present in low concentration and interparticle interactions occur primarily in isolated clusters (pairs, triplets, etc.). For example, the pressure of a low-density vapor can be accurately described by the virial expansion,1 whereas its transport coefficients can be estimated from kinetic theory.2,3 On the other hand, using microscopic information to predict the properties, and in particular the dynamics, of condensed phases such as liquids and solids remains a far more challenging task. In these states... 

This is a simple and important result. It equates VPIE to the isotopic difference of standard state free energies on phase change, plus a small correction for vapor phase nonideality, here approximated through the second virial coefficient. Therefore Equation 5.8 is limited to relatively low pressure. As T and P increase third and higher virial corrections may be needed, and at even higher pressures the virial expansion must be abandoned for a more accurate equation of state. 

This value of kn is actually low by an order of magnitude for dilute suspensions of charged spheres of radius Rg. This is due to the neglect of interchain correlations for c < c in the structure factor used in the derivation of Eqs. (295)-(298). If the repulsive interaction between polyelectrolyte chains dominates, as expected in salt-free solutions, the virial expansion for viscosity may be valid over considerable range of concentrations where the average distance between chains scales as. This virial series may be approxi-... 

There are a number of quantitative features of Eq. (14) which are important in relation to rapid diffusional transport in binary systems. The mutual diffusion coefficient is primarily dependent on four parameters, namely the frictional coefficient 21 the virial coefficients, molecular weight of component 2 and its concentration. Therefore, for polymers for which water is a good solvent (strongly positive values of the virial coefficients), the magnitude of (D22)v and its concentration dependence will be a compromise between the increasing magnitude of with concentration and the increasing value of the virial expansion with concentration. 

On closer analysis of the individual parameters in Eq, (14) we find that the virial expansion is a parameter essentially independent of molecular weight at high dextran concentrations (Fig. 2). Therefore, it is recognized that the M/f21 term in Eq. (14) must become a molecular weight-independent parameter. 

Equation (95) is obtained from the virial expansion of the equation of state for rigid spheres for higher densities the rigid-sphere equation of state obtained from the radial distribution function by Kirkwood, Maun, and Alder has to be used (K10, Hll, p. 649). When Eq. (95) is substituted in Eqs. (92), (93), and (94) one then obtains the rigorous expressions for the coefficients of viscosity, thermal conductivity, and selfdiffusion of a gas composed of rigid spheres. 

True induced spectra of ternary complexes have also been identified and separated from the binary components in more recent years, by varying gas densities and making use of the virial expansion, Eq. 1.2. 

The virial expansions of these distribution functions [135] are given by... 

The coefficients M k) describe the (i + k)-body contribution involving i atoms of species 1 and k atoms of 2. At not too high densities, the virial expansion of spectral moments provides a sound basis for the study of the spectroscopic three-body (and possibly higher) effects. We note that theoretically terms like M 30 gj and M g should be included in the expansion, Eq. 3.9. These correspond to homonuclear three-body contributions which, however, were experimentally shown to be insignificant in the rare gases and are omitted, see p. 58 for details. 

Collision-induced absorption takes place by /c-body complexes of atoms, with k = 2,3,... Each of the resulting spectral components may perhaps be expected to show a characteristic variation ( Qk) with gas density q. It is, therefore, of interest to consider virial expansions of spectral moments of binary mixtures of monatomic gases, i.e., an expansion of the observed absorption in terms of powers of gas density [314], Van Kranendonk and associates [401, 403, 314] have argued that the virial expansion of the spectral moments is possible, because the induced dipole moments are short-ranged functions of the intermolecular separations, R, which decrease faster than R 3. We label the two components of a monatomic mixture a and b, and the atoms of species a and b are labeled 1, 2, N and 1, 2, N, respectively. A set of fc-body, irreducible dipole functions U 2, Us,..., Uk, is introduced (as in Eqs. 4.46), according to... 

It was recently shown that a formal density expansion of space-time correlation functions of quantum mechanical many-body systems is possible in very general terms [297]. The formalism may be applied to collision-induced absorption to obtain the virial expansions of the dipole... 

The virial expansion of the time correlation functions is possible for times smaller than the mean time x between collisions. Accordingly, the spectral profiles may be expanded in powers of density, for angular frequencies much greater than the reciprocal mean time between collisions, co 1/r. Since at low density the mean time between collisions is inversely proportional to density, lower densities permit a meaningful virial expansion for a greater portion of the spectral profiles. 

Using the same reasoning as in the previous Chapter, for the monatomic mixtures, one arrives at the virial expansion, Eq. 5.18,... 

The theory of line shapes of systems involving one or more molecules starts from the same relationships mentioned in Chapter 5. We will not repeat here the basic developments, e.g., the virial expansion, and proceed directly to the discussion of binary molecular systems. It has been amply demonstrated that at not too high gas densities the intensities of most parts of the induced absorption spectra vary as density squared, which suggests a binary origin. However, in certain narrow frequency bands, especially in the Q branches, this intensity variation with density q differs from the q2 behavior (intercollisional effect) the binary line shape theory does not describe the observed spectra where many-body processes are significant. In the absence of a workable theory that covers all frequencies at once, even in the low-density limit one has to treat the intercollisional parts of the spectra separately and remember that the binary theory fails at certain narrow frequency bands [318],... 

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