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Pressure Correction in Classical Density Functional Theory: Hyper Netted Chain and Hard Sphere Bridge Functionals

Low accuracy of the Solvation Free Energy (SFE) calculation is a known problem of the numerical methods of the Integral Equation Theory of Liquids and the Classical Density Functional Theory (Classical DFT). Although functionals with empirical corrections can essentially improve the predictability of the methods, their universality is still a question. In our recent paper we connected the SFE calculation errors with the incorrect pressure in the Classical DFT and proposed the a posteriory correction to improve the results (J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 5, 1925-1942 ). This paper raised a discussion in the community. In particular, recently appeared a critical reply where pointed some thermodynamical inconsistencies of the derivations in our paper (J. Chem. Theory Comput., 11, 378-380). In the present work we re-derive the pressure correction in a more simple way and show that despite the inaccuracies during the derivation, the final form of the previously derived correction is correct. We also test the applicability of the proposed correction to the functionals which include a three- and many- body terms from the fundamental measure theory (FMT) for hard sphere fluid. We test all the functionals on a set of model systems and discuss the obtained results.