title: Empirical bridge function for strongly coupled yukawa systems
abstract: A simple bridge function for strongly coupled Yukawa systems is developed based upon a form previously extracted for a one-component plasma [H. Iyetomi, S. Ogata, and S. Ichimaru, Phys. Rev. A 46, 1051 (1992)]. Using the proposed bridge function in the modified hypernetted chain theory, excellent agreement is obtained with molecular dynamics simulations and the compressibility sum rule is satisfied to within a few percent. This result offers a simple and very accurate method to quickly compute correlation functions for Yukawa systems.
authors.affiliation: Plasma Physics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Daughton
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Murillo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Thode