Path-integral calculation of the third dielectric virial coefficient of noble gases

Published

December 15, 2021

Author(s)

Giovanni Garberoglio, Allan H. Harvey, Bogumil Jeziorski

Abstract

We present a rigorous framework for fully quantum calculation of the third dielectric virial coefficient C_eps(T) of noble gases, including exchange effects. The quantum efects are taken into account with the path-integral Monte Carlo method. Calculations employing state-of-the-art pair and three-body potentials and pair polarizabilities yield results generally consistent with the few scattered experimental data available for helium, neon, and argon, but rigorous calculations with well-described uncertainties will require the development of surfaces for the three-body nonadditive polarizability and the three-body dipole moment. The framework developed here will enable new approaches to primary temperature and pressure metrology based on fi rst-principles calculations of gas properties.

Citation

The Journal of Chemical Physics

Volume

155

Issue

23

Pub Type

Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0077684

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Keywords

argon, dielectric constant, helium, metrology, neon, virial coefficients

Citation

Garberoglio, G. , Harvey, A. and Jeziorski, B. (2021), Path-integral calculation of the third dielectric virial coefficient of noble gases, The Journal of Chemical Physics, [online], https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0077684, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=933479 (Accessed October 8, 2025)