The hard core Yukawa potential has two forms, the attractive Yukawa potential:
![{\displaystyle \Phi _{12}\left(r\right)=\left\{{\begin{array}{lll}\infty &;&r<\sigma \\-\left({\frac {\epsilon \sigma }{r}}\right)\exp \left[-\kappa \left({\frac {r}{\sigma }}-1\right)\right]&;&r\geq \sigma \end{array}}\right.}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/54a0e1abaf83826da9b26ab63511f7429ad0fc77)
and the repulsive form
![{\displaystyle \Phi _{12}\left(r\right)=\left\{{\begin{array}{lll}\infty &;&r<\sigma \\\left({\frac {\epsilon \sigma }{r}}\right)\exp \left[-\kappa \left({\frac {r}{\sigma }}-1\right)\right]&;&r\geq \sigma \end{array}}\right.}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/bac4936e842e1c8959739f8910c4222cee4fc176)
where
is the intermolecular pair potential,
is the distance between site 1 and site 2,
is the hard diameter,
is the energy well depth (
), and
is a parameter that controls the interaction range (
).
The repulsive form has been used to study charge-stabilised colloid-colloid interactions.
Critical point
For the attractive form of the potential, from a study of the law of corresponding states, one has (Ref. 1 Eq. 3)

and (Ref. 1 Eq. 4)
.
The repulsive form of the potential has no critical point.
Triple points
- Fouad El Azhar, Marc Baus, Jean-Paul Ryckaert and Evert Jan Meijer "Line of triple points for the hard-core Yukawa model: A computer simulation study", Journal of Chemical Physics 112 pp. 5121- (2000)
Phase diagram
- Main article: Phase diagram of the Yukawa potential
References
- Pedro Orea and Yurko Duda "On the corresponding states law of the Yukawa fluid", Journal of Chemical Physics 128 134508 (2008)