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Figure 5 .5 : The pair correlation function g(r) of liquid Argon calculated by inverse Fourier<br />

transform from thé data in figure 5 .4 [7] .<br />

of motions using thé interatomic forces . These calculations yield thé time average4 . The<br />

solid curve in figure 5 .5 shows thé result of an MD calculation with a Lennard-Jones-<br />

Potential (V(r) oc (Q/r) 12 - (Q/r) 6)-thé agreement is excellent .<br />

Unfortunately, thé pair correlation function is comparatively insensitive to details of thé<br />

pair potential . To obtain exact information on V (r) it is necessary to do extremely<br />

accurate measurements with errors in thé per mille range .<br />

5 .2 .3 <strong>Scattering</strong> from a Polymer Chain<br />

We consider a polymer, i .e .<br />

monomers .<br />

a long chain molécule consisting of equal building blocks, thé<br />

In thé melt thé spatial arrangement of thé monomers is simply given by a<br />

random walk5 . The mean squared distance between monomers i and j for such a coiled<br />

chain is proportional to thé différence of indices<br />

thé neutron scattering results shown here .<br />

(rij 2 ) = ~2Ii - j<br />

(5 .15)<br />

4 The ergodic hypothesis ensures that thé results of both methods are thé Same .<br />

a This is a result by no means trivial . It was actually confirmed for thé first time by<br />

5-8

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