Precise Simulation of Near-critical Fluid Coexistence
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
We present a novel method to derive liquid-gas coexisting densities, , from grand canonical simulations (without knowledge of or criticality class). The minima of in an box with are used to generate recursively an unbiased universal finite-size scaling function. Monte Carlo data for a hard-core square-well fluid and for the restricted primitive model electrolyte yield to -2% of down to 1 part in - of (and confirm well Ising character). Pressure mixing in the scaling fields is unequivocally revealed and indicates Yang-Yang ratios and for the two models, respectively.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0304032,
title = {Precise Simulation of Near-critical Fluid Coexistence},
author = {Young C. Kim and Michael E. Fisher and Erik Luijten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0304032},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett