title: Communication: inferring the equation of state of a metastable hard-sphere fluid from the equation of state of a hard-sphere mixture at high densities.
abstract: A possible approximate route to obtain the equation of state of the monodisperse hard-sphere system in the metastable fluid region from the knowledge of the equation of state of a hard-sphere mixture at high densities is discussed. The proposal is illustrated by using recent Monte Carlo simulation data for the pressure of a binary mixture. It is further shown to exhibit high internal consistency.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, E-06071, Spain. andres@unex.es
authors.forename: Andrés
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Santos B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Yuste
authors.forename: Mariano López
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: de Haro