Chemical and mechanical spinodals a unique liquid-gas instability

DOI10.1016/S0375-9474(03)01383-6MaRDI QIDQ1408024zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Margueron, P. Chomaz

Publication date 14 September 2003

Published in Nuclear Physics. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0303024

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

Abstract: We demonstrate that the instabilities of asymmetric nuclear matter at sub-saturation densities do not present two types of instabilities as usually discussed but a unique one. The associated order parameter is everywhere dominated by the isoscalar density and so the transition is of liquid-gas type even in the so-called chemical instability region.

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