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Mobility of O$_2^-$ ions in supercritical Ar: Experiment and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Plasma Physics 2011-06-01 v1

Abstract

A new analysis and new Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of the measurements of the mobility μi\mu_{i} of O2_{2}^{-} ions in dense supercritical Ar gas are reported. μi\mu_{i} shows a marked dependence on the distance from the critical temperature Tc.T_{c}. A mobility defect appears as a function of the gas density and its maximum value occurs below the critical density. The locus of points of maximum mobility defect in the PTP-T plane appears on the extrapolation of the coexistence curve into the single-phase region. MD simulations quantitatively reproduce the mobility defect near Tc.T_{c}.

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@article{arxiv.0803.1448,
  title  = {Mobility of O$_2^-$ ions in supercritical Ar: Experiment and Molecular Dynamics Simulations},
  author = {A. F. Borghesani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.1448},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

7 pages, 6 figures, submitted to International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, issue in honor of E. Illenberger