CRITICAL-BEHAVIOR IN MSA FOR A SYMMETRIC YUKAWA MIXTURE

We study a symmetric binary mixture of equidiameter hard-spheres with repulsive Yukawa interaction for unlike atoms and attractive Yukawa interaction for like atoms. Due to a fully analytical approach we find that, for all values of the Yukawa exponent z≠0, the critical exponents are of the mean-spherical type. The critical region gets narrower with the increase of the range of the potential, causing a failure of the ordinary numerical analysis. Therefore, the previous analysis, based on numerically accessible region near the critical point, that predicted the mean-field structure of the critical exponents for small values of z, was not adequate. © 1990 Springer-Verlag.