Abstract
Two different levels of the free-volume approximation for describing one-dimensional mixtures of hard rods of two different lengths are analysed and tested against the exact solution. The mean-field level free-volume approach, where only the statistically pre-averaged free volume of the larger rods is accounted for, yields a spurious phase transition. Taking correlations into account not only gives better quantitative results, it also shows qualitative right physics, i.e. no phase transition.
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