The penetrable-sphere fluid in the high-temperature, high-density limit

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2004.02.039zbMATH Open1118.81302arXivcond-mat/0308628OpenAlexW1978815180MaRDI QIDQ2383232FDOQ2383232

Authors: L. Acedo, Andres Santos 

Publication date: 8 October 2007

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a fluid of $d$-dimensional spherical particles interacting via a pair potential $phi(r)$ which takes a finite value $epsilon$ if the two spheres are overlapped ($r<sigma$) and 0 otherwise. This penetrable-sphere model has been proposed to describe the effective interaction of micelles in a solvent. We derive the structural and thermodynamic functions in the limit where the reduced temperature $k_{B}T/epsilon$ and density $hosigm{a}^d$ tend to infinity, their ratio being kept finite. The fluid exhibits a spinodal instability at a certain maximum scaled density where the correlation length diverges and a crystalline phase appears, even in the one-dimensional model. By using a simple free-volume theory for the solid phase of the model, the fluid-solid phase transition is located.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0308628

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zbMATH Keywords

fluid-solid phase transitionpenetrable-sphere modelsoft interactionsspinodal instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of liquids (82D15)

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