Ideal mixture approximation of cluster size distributions at low density

DOI10.1007/S10955-012-0499-5zbMATH Open1251.82040arXiv1112.4725OpenAlexW2075690479MaRDI QIDQ438822FDOQ438822

Authors: Sabine Jansen, W. König 

Publication date: 31 July 2012

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider an interacting particle system in continuous configuration space. The pair interaction has an attractive part. We show that, at low density, the system behaves approximately like an ideal mixture of clusters (droplets): we prove rigorous bounds (a) for the constrained free energy associated with a given cluster size distribution, considered as an order parameter, (b) for the free energy, obtained by minimising over the order parameter, and (c) for the minimising cluster size distributions. It is known that, under suitable assumptions, the ideal mixture has a transition from a gas phase to a condensed phase as the density is varied; our bounds hold both in the gas phase and in the coexistence region of the ideal mixture. The present paper improves our earlier results by taking into account the mixing entropy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4725

Recommendations

• Large deviations for cluster size distributions in a continuous classical many-body system
• Cluster expansions with renormalized activities and applications to colloids
• Cluster size distribution in a system of randomly spaced particles
• On the low-temperature behavior of the infinite-volume ideal Bose gas
• Cluster expansion in the canonical ensemble

zbMATH Keywords

large deviationsequilibrium statistical mechanicscanonical ensembleclassical particle systemdilute system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Cites Work

• A proof of crystallization in two dimensions
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Mayer and virial series at low temperature
• The Becker-Döring cluster equations: Basic properties and asymptotic behaviour of solutions
• Equilibrium distributions of physical clusters
• Large deviations for cluster size distributions in a continuous classical many-body system
• Minimizing atomic configurations of short range pair potentials in two dimensions: crystallization in the Wulff shape
• Phase transitions for dilute particle systems with Lennard-Jones potential

Cited In (6)

• On the low-temperature behavior of the infinite-volume ideal Bose gas
• Overcomplete free energy functional for \(D\) = 1 particle systems with next neighbor interactions
• Cluster size distribution in a system of randomly spaced particles
• Large deviations for cluster size distributions in a continuous classical many-body system
• Thermodynamics of a hierarchical mixture of cubes
• Clustering in interfering binary mixtures

This page was built for publication: Ideal mixture approximation of cluster size distributions at low density

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q438822)