ZhETF, Vol. 122,
No. 4,
p. 820 (October 2002)
(English translation - JETP,
Vol. 95, No. 4,
p. 710,
October 2002
available online at www.springer.com
)
A LIQUID-LIQUID PHASE TRANSITION IN THE «COLLAPSING» HARD SPHERE SYSTEM
Ryzhov V.N., Stishov S.M.
Received: May 6, 2002
PACS: 61.20.Ja, 64.70.Ja
A liquid-liquid phase transition is discovered in a system of collapsing hard spheres using the thermodynamic perturbation theory. This is the first evidence in favor of the existence of that kind of phase transitions in systems with purely repulsive and isotropic interactions.
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