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ZhETF, Vol. 139, No. 4, p. 733 (April 2011)
(English translation - JETP, Vol. 112, No. 4, p. 637, April 2011 available online at www.springer.com )

A SIMPLE THEORY OF CONDENSATION
Rabinovich S.

Received: October 25, 2010

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A simple assumption of an emergence in gas of small atomic clusters consisting of c particles each leads to a phase separation (first-order transition). It reveals itself by the emergence of a ``forbidden'' density range starting at a certain temperature. Defining this latter value as the critical temperature predicts the existence of an interval with the anomalous heat capacity behavior c_p\propto\Delta T^{-1/c}. The value c=13 suggested in the literature yields the heat capacity exponent α=0.077.

 
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