Title: STRUCTURAL STUDY OF LIQUID RARE EARTH METALS FROM CHARGED HARD SPHERE REFERENCE FLUID
Author(s): P.B.Thakor, P.N.Gajjar, A.R.Jani (Department of Physics, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar 388 120, Gujarat, India)

The present article deals with the investigation of structure factor, $s(q)$; radial distribution function, $g(r)$ and interatomic distance, $r_{1}$ of liquid rare earth metals, Nd, Dy, Ho, Er and Lu by adopting Charged Hard Sphere (CHS) reference fluid. To describe electron-ion interaction, our well established model potential along with the dielectric function due to Taylor is used. Good agreement between present and experimental findings is concluded.

Key words: pseudopotential, structure factor, radial distribution function, rare earth metals
PACS: 71.15.H, 61.25.M