Liquid-liquid phase transition for an attractive isotropic potential with wide repulsive range

We investigate how the phase diagram of a repulsive soft-core attractive potential, with a liquid-liquid phase transition in addition to the standard gas-liquid phase transition, changes by varying the parameters of the potential. We extend our previous work on short soft-core ranges to the case of...

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Autores: Malescio, Gianpietro, Franzese, Giancarlo, Skibinsky, Anna, Buldyrev, V. S. (Vladimir Sergeevich), Stanley, H. Eugene (Harry Eugene), 1941-
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/18838
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/18838
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cristal·lografia
Equacions d'estat
Crystallography
Equations of state
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Sumario:We investigate how the phase diagram of a repulsive soft-core attractive potential, with a liquid-liquid phase transition in addition to the standard gas-liquid phase transition, changes by varying the parameters of the potential. We extend our previous work on short soft-core ranges to the case of large soft-core ranges, by using an integral equation approach in the hypernetted-chain approximation. We show, using a modified van der Waals equation we recently introduced, that if there is a balance between the attractive and repulsive part of the potential this potential has two fluid-fluid critical points well separated in temperature and in density. This implies that for the repulsive (attractive) energy U R ( U A ) and the repulsive (attractive) range w R ( w A ) the relation U R ∕ U A ∝ w R ∕ w A holds for short soft-core ranges, while U R ∕ U A ∝ 3 w R ∕ w A holds for large soft-core ranges.