Monte Carlo simulations of thermodynamic properties of argon, krypton and xenon in liquid and gas state using new ab initio pair potentials

Abstract

The internal energies and compressibility factors of argon, krypton and xenon have been simulated using recent state-of-the-art ab initio pair intermolecular potentials and the best semi-empirical pair potentials, and the Axilrod-Teller-Muto three-body term. The results are compared with experimental data for both sub-critical and super-critical temperatures and for densities ranging up to a 2.5 multiple of the critical density. Both the ab initio and semi-empirical results for argon are in very good agreement with the experimental ones. For krypton and xenon, the ab initio results are worse than the semi-empirical results but they are still acceptable.