Thermodynamic consistency between the energy and virial routes in the mean spherical approximation for soft potentials

Abstract

It is proven that, for any soft potential characterized by a finite Fourier transform $\widetilde{\phi}(k)$, the virial and energy thermodynamic routes are equivalent for approximations such that the Fourier transform of the total correlation function divided by the density $\rho$ is an arbitrary function of $\rho\beta\widetilde{\phi}(k)$, where $\beta$ is the inverse temperature. This class includes the mean spherical approximation as a particular case.