Abstract
Molecular dynamics computer simulations of various symmetrical Lennard-Jones (LJ) models are used to elucidate how the excess volume in dense binary liquids is related to the microscopic interactions between the particles. Both fully miscible systems and systems with a liquid-liquid phase separation are considered by varying systematically the parameters of the LJ potentials. The phase diagrams with the critical points of the demixing systems are determined by means of Monte Carlo simulations in the semigrandcanonical ensemble. The different LJ models are investigated by computing Bhatia-Thornton structure factors, enthalpy of mixing, and excess volume. For the demixing systems, the LJ models show a positive enthalpy of mixing while it is negative for the systems without miscibility gap. In contrast to that, the excess volume can be negative and positive for both demixing and fully miscible systems. This behavior is explained in terms of the interplay between the repulsive and attractive terms in the LJ potential. Whereas repulsions dominate the packing of particles as reflected by the number-density structure factor, the chemical ordering and thus the concentration structure factor are strongly affected by attractive interactions, leading to the "anomalies" of the excess volume.
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