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The Lennard-Jones-Devonshire cell model revisited

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We reanalyse the cell theory of Lennard-Jones and Devonshire and find that in addition to the critical point originally reported for the 12-6 potential (and widely quoted in standard textbooks), the model exhibits a further critical point. We show that the latter is actually a more appropriate candidate for liquid-gas criticality than the original critical point.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0111240,
  title  = {The Lennard-Jones-Devonshire cell model revisited},
  author = {James E. Magee and Nigel B. Wilding},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0111240},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Mol. Phys