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The asymptotic density profile of classical simple fluids in contact with a hard wall is studied using the hypernetted chain approximation for inhomogeneous systems. It is shown that the one-particle distribution function tends very slowly to the density of the bulk, also in absence of a long-range wall-particle interaction, when the pair interaction between particles in the bulk varies as an inverse power at large distances.
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Ballone, P., Pastore, G. Asymptotic density profile of a classical fluid against a hard wall. J Stat Phys 38, 861–865 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01010419
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