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The time-correlation function for shear viscosity is evaluated for hard spheres at volumes of 1.6 and 3 times the close-packed volume by a Monte Carlomolecular dynamics technique. At both densities, the kinetic part of the timecorrelation function is consistent, within its rather large statistical uncertainty, with the long-timet −3/2 tail predicted by the mode-coupling theory. However, at the higher density, the time-correlation function is dominated by the cross and potential terms out to 25 mean free times, whereas the mode-coupling theory predicts that these are asymptotically negligible compared to the kinetic part. The total time-correlation function decays roughly asαt −3/2, withα much larger than the mode-coupling value, similar to the recent observations by Evans in his nonequilibrium simulations of argon and methane. The exact value of the exponent is, however, not very precisely determined. By analogy with the case of the velocity autocorrelation function, for which results are also presented at these densities, it is argued that it is quite possible that at high density the asymptotic behavior is not established until times substantially longer than those attainable in the present work. At the lower density, the cross and potential terms are of the same magnitude as the kinetic part, and all are consistent with the mode-coupling predictions within the relatively large statistical uncertainties.
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Erpenbeck, J.J., Wood, W.W. Molecular dynamics calculations of shear viscosity time-correlation functions for hard spheres. J Stat Phys 24, 455–468 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01012817
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