Generalized van der Waals theory of liquid-liquid phase transitions
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
In the framework of the thermodynamic perturbation theory for fluids we study how the phase diagram of an isotropic repulsive soft-core attractive potential, where a liquid-liquid phase transition exists in addition to the standard gas-liquid phase transition, changes by varying the parameters of the potential. We show that existence of the liquid-liquid transition is determined by the interplay of the parameters of the potential and the structure of a reference liquid.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0512640,
title = {Generalized van der Waals theory of liquid-liquid phase transitions},
author = {Yu. D. Fomin and V. N. Ryzhov and E. E. Tareyeva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0512640},
year = {2009}
}
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5 pages, 6 figures