Criticality in strongly correlated fluids
Abstract
In this brief review I will discuss criticality in strongly correlated fluids. Unlike the molecules of simple fluids, which interact through short-ranged isotropic potentials, particles of strongly correlated fluids usually interact through long-ranged forces of Coulomb or dipolar form. While for simple fluids the mechanism of phase separation into liquid and gas was elucidated by van der Waals more than a century ago, the universality class of strongly correlated fluids, or in some cases even the existence of liquid-gas phase separation, remains uncertain.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
- Pub Date:
- March 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0953-8984/14/9/319
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0111247
- Bibcode:
- 2002JPCM...14.2303L
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
- E-Print:
- Proceedings of Scaling Concepts and Complex Systems, Merida, Mexico