title: Demixing can occur in binary hard-sphere mixtures with negative nonadditivity.
abstract: A binary fluid mixture of nonadditive hard spheres characterized by a size ratio gamma = sigma(2)/sigma(1) < 1 and a nonadditivity parameter Delta = 2 sigma(12)/(sigma(1) + sigma(2)) - 1 is considered in infinitely many dimensions. From the equation of state in the second virial approximation (which is exact in the limit d--> infinity) a demixing transition with a critical consolute point at a packing fraction scaling as eta approximately d2(-d) is found, even for slightly negative nonadditivity, if Delta >-1/8 (ln gamma)(2). Arguments concerning the stability of the demixing with respect to freezing are provided.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain. andres@unex.es
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: López de Haro