Liquid physics

Physics of liquid jets

Jets, i.e. collimated streams of matter, occur from the microscale up to the large-scale structure of the universe. Our focus will be mostly on surface tension effects, which result from the cohesive properties of liquids. Paradoxically, cohesive forces promote the breakup of jets, widely encountered in nature, technology and basic science, for example in nuclear fission, DNA sampling, medical ...

Physics of the liquid-liquid critical point.

Within the inherent structure thermodynamic formalism introduced by Stillinger and Weber [Phys. Rev. A 25, 978 (1982)]], we address the basic question of the physics of the liquid-liquid transition and of density maxima observed in some complex liquids such as water by identifying, for the first time, the statistical properties of the potential energy landscape responsible for these anomalies. ...

Physics 563 Term Paper Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition

Fifty years of liquid state physics.

The puzzling statistical physics of liquid water

Although H2O has been the topic of considerable research since the beginning of the century, the peculiar physical properties are still not well understood. We discuss recent experiments and simulations relating to the hypothesis that, in addition to the known critical point in water, there exists a “second” critical point at low temperatures. In particular, we discuss very recent measurements ...