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Unpublished Paper
Cluster Monte Carlo study of multicomponent fluids of the Stillinger-Helfand and Widom-Rowlinson type
Physical Review E (2000)
  • Rongfeng Sun
  • Harvey Gould
  • Jonathan Machta, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • L. W. Chayes
Abstract
Phase transitions of fluid mixtures of the type introduced by Stillinger and Helfand are studied using a continuum version of the invaded cluster algorithm. Particles of the same species do not interact, but particles of different types interact with each other via a repulsive potential. Examples of interactions include the Gaussian molecule potential and a repulsive step potential. Accurate values of the critical density, fugacity, and magnetic exponent are found in two and three dimensions for the two-species model. The effect of varying the number of species and of introducing quenched impurities is also investigated. In all the cases studied, mixtures of q species are found to have properties similar to q-state Potts models.
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Publication Date
2000
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Prepublished version downloaded from ArXiv. Published version is located at http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.62.2226
Citation Information
Rongfeng Sun, Harvey Gould, Jonathan Machta and L. W. Chayes. "Cluster Monte Carlo study of multicomponent fluids of the Stillinger-Helfand and Widom-Rowlinson type" Physical Review E (2000)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joonathan_machta/15/