Criticality in strongly correlated fluids
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
In this brief review I will discuss criticality in strongly correlated fluids. Unlike simple fluids, molecules of which interact through short ranged isotropic potential, particles of strongly correlated fluids usually interact through long ranged forces of Coulomb or dipolar form. While for simple fluids mechanism of phase separation into liquid and gas was elucidated by van der Waals more than a century ago, the universality class of strongly correlated fluids, or in some cases even existence of liquid-gas phase separation remains uncertain.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0111247,
title = {Criticality in strongly correlated fluids},
author = {Yan Levin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0111247},
year = {2009}
}
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Proceedings of Scaling Concepts and Complex Systems, Merida, Mexico