Self Diffusion in Liquid Metals

Abstract

Abstract Self-diffusion coefficients of liquid metals have been calculated according to the linear trajectory prescription. The soft part of the pair potential is being represented by a square well potential. The theoretical liquid structure factor, S(q), calculated under the mean spherical model (MSM) approximation, has been employed in the present calculations. The agreement between theory and experiment is encouraging and shows that the representation of the attractive forces by the square well potential is quite satisfactory for liquid metals.