Communication: Nonexistence of a critical point within the Kirkwood superposition approximation.
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چکیده
An analytic argument is given to show that the application of the Kirkwood superposition approximation to the description of fluid correlation functions precludes the existence of a critical point. The argument holds irrespective of the dimension of the system and the specific form of the interaction potential and settles a long-standing controversy surrounding the nature of the critical behavior predicted within the approximation.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of chemical physics
دوره 139 14 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013