Thermodynamic properties of an asymmetric fluid mixture with Yukawa interaction in the mean spherical approximation Interaction between macroparticles in a simple model system of a nonpolar liquid containing trace amounts of waterThe explicit result of the coefficients of the Mueller matrices, which express the Stokes parameters of single and double scattered lights in term of the parameters of the corresponding incident light, are obtained for a nonpolar fluid composed of chiral molecules with the aid of the Ornstein-Zernike form for the correlation function of density fluctuations. The explicit results show that any higher order multiple scattering satisfies the principle of symmetry and law of reciprocity. From the matrices some scattering phenomena for six kinds of completely polarized light in a nonpolar achiral fluid are discussed in the cases of far from and near the critical point. While the degrees of circularity ͑DCs͒ give identical information with the circular intensity differences ͑CIDs͒ in the region far from the critical point, the critical DCs for circularly polarized lights is quite different from the critical CIDs. The theoretical result of DCs for the circularly polarized lights indicates that the DCs can be other effective experimental tools to measure the critical scattering of a fluid.

On the critical behavior of circular intensity differences of a nonpolar binary liquid mixture J. Chem. Phys. 90, 1165 (1989 10.1063/1.456172 Erratum: On the critical behavior of circular intensity difference for a nonpolar fluid composed of chiral molecules [J.The effect of double scattering on circular intensity difference (CID) in a nonpolar fluid composed of chiral molecules is explicitly obtained in the critical region, where the Ornstein-Zernike theory holds, using the stationary phase approximation. The double scattering in the direction of orthogonal to the direction of propagation of incident light makes a minor contribution to CID in the critical region, compared with the single scattering. In the direction of propagation of incident light the double scattering plays the most dominant role in the critical region very close to the critical point and the magnitude of CID is same as that in the direction orthogonal to the propagation of incident light, while its effect on CID may be neglected in the critical region far from the critical point.

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