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Original Articles

A theoretical extension for the electrical conductivity of molten salts

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Pages 45-56 | Received 18 Oct 2008, Accepted 24 Jun 2011, Published online: 23 Aug 2011
 

Abstract

A microscopic description for the partial DC conductivities in molten salts developed by the present authors is briefly summarised, starting from the Langevin equation for the constituent ions. It is clarified that the memory function should be written as the form of , in which is the Fourier–Laplace transform in the long wavelength limit and the integration from zero to infinity for being unity. To solve the mutual relation between the combined velocity correlation functions to elucidate the DC conductivities and the memory function of the Langevin equation in a short time region, we propose a new recursion method. Practical application is carried out for the derivation of the fitted memory function from the of molten NaCl obtained by MD simulation. This fitted function in the short time region is approximated to a summation of three kinds of the Gaussian functions, and their physical interpretations are discussed.

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