Clusters in simple fluids
Abstract
This article concerns the correspondence between thermodynamics and the morphology of simple fluids in terms of clusters. Definitions of clusters providing a geometric interpretation of the liquid-gas phase transition are reviewed with an eye to establishing their physical relevance. The author emphasizes their main features and basic hypotheses, and shows how these definitions lead to a recent approach based on self-bound clusters. Although theoretical, this tutorial review is also addressed to readers interested in experimental aspects of clustering in simple fluids.
- Publication:
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Physics Reports
- Pub Date:
- March 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0370-1573(02)00583-5
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0210566
- Bibcode:
- 2003PhR...376....1S
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
- E-Print:
- 48 pages, 12 figures included, to be published in Physics Reports