A microscopic study of neon and argon gases within the static fluctuation approximation (SFA)

Abstract

The thermodynamic properties of neon and argon gases are studied within the static fluctuation approximation (SFA). These properties include the total internal energy, pressure, entropy, compressibility and specific heat. The results are compared with those recently obtained within the Galitskii–Migdal–Feynman (GMF) formalism. The overall agreement is very good. An exception, however, is the specific-heat results for neon. While SFA gives results rather similar to those of the ideal gas, the corresponding GMF results are quite different. It is argued that the discrepancy seems to have arisen from quantum effects in conformity with very recent Monte Carlo computations. Whenever possible, our SFA results are compared to experimental data.