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A phase-field crystal model based on the density-field approach incorporating high-order interparticle direct correlations is developed to study vapor-liquid-solid coexistence and transitions within a single continuum description.…
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We discuss a phenomenological method which allows to determine the singular asymptotic behaviours for a pure fluid at equilibrium, when the liquid-gas critical point and the tangent plane to the characteristic surface of this point are…
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