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

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    • Contributors:
      Universitat de Barcelona
    • Publication Information:
      Preprint
    • Publication Information:
      American Physical Society (APS), 2005.
    • Publication Date:
      2005
    • Abstract:
      Recent experimental and theoretical results have shown the existence of a liquid-liquid phase transition in isotropic systems, such as biological solutions and colloids, whose interaction can be represented via an effective potential with a repulsive soft-core and an attractive part. We investigate how the phase diagram of a schematic general isotropic system, interacting via a soft-core squared attractive potential, changes by varying the parameters of the potential. It has been shown that this potential has a phase diagram with a liquid-liquid phase transition in addition to the standard gas-liquid phase transition and that, for a short-range soft-core, the phase diagram resulting from molecular dynamics simulations can be interpreted through a modified van der Waals equation. Here we consider the case of soft-core ranges comparable with or larger than the hard-core diameter. Because an analysis using molecular dynamics simulations of such systems or potentials is too time-demanding, we adopt an integral equation approach in the hypernetted-chain approximation. Thus we can estimate how the temperature and density of both critical points depend on the potential's parameters for large soft-core ranges. The present results confirm and extend our previous analysis, showing that this potential has two fluid-fluid critical points that are well separated in temperature and in density only if there is a balance between the attractive and repulsive part of the potential. We find that for large soft-core ranges our results satisfy a simple relation between the potential's parameters.
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    • ISSN:
      1550-2376
      1539-3755
    • Accession Number:
      10.1103/physreve.71.061504
    • Accession Number:
      10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0412159
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      arXiv Non-Exclusive Distribution
    • Accession Number:
      edsair.doi.dedup.....6a473caa03adda905d2c2c78197b7539