Computer simulation of liquid ionic alloys and metal‐molten salt solutions

Abstract

We present a numerical study of simple models of liquid ionic alloys and metal‐molten salt solutions. The microscopic structure is modeled using the primitive model of charged hard spheres, the electronic structure is described by a right‐binding Hamiltonian including the crucial component of Madelung potential fluctuations. We discuss the nature of the nonmetal‐metal crossover as a function of composition in these systems and present a computation of thermodynamic properties within the screened mean spherical approximation.