Systematic characterization of thermodynamic and dynamical phase behavior in systems with short-ranged attraction.

In this paper we demonstrate the feasibility and utility of an augmented version of the Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo method for computing the phase behavior of systems with strong, extremely short-ranged attractions. For generic potential shapes, this approach allows for the investigation of narrower attractive widths than those previously reported. Direct comparison to previous self-consistent Ornstein-Zernike approximation calculations is made. A preliminary investigation of out-of-equilibrium behavior is also performed. Our results suggest that the recent observations of stable cluster phases in systems without long-ranged repulsions are intimately related to gas-crystal and metastable gas-liquid phase separation.

• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

• Publication date

  2006-04-18

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.011507arXiv cond-mat/0604428PMID 17358160
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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