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Raymond D Mountain1, Steven W Haan1
1Center for Thermodynamics and Molecular Science, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC 20234.
Abstract:
Molecular dynamics calculations were made for three thermodynamic states of a model of liquid rubidium and for two states of the Lennard-Jones fluid in order to investigate the influence of density, temperature and interatomic potential on the spectra of density fluctuations in these fluids. Here the results for the intermediate scattering function, the radial distribution function, the velocity autocorrelation function and the transverse momentum autocorrelation function are presented in tabular form. The procedures employed in this study are discussed and the major features of these functions are described.
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