Abstract

We derive a statistical mechanical expression for the surface tension of a liquid-vapor interface. It contains the density profile and the direct correlation function in the vicinity of the interface. When a local Ornstein-Zernike approximation is made on the direct correlation function, the surface-tension theory of Fisk and Widom is obtained.

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