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Density anomaly and liquid-liquid transition from perturbation theories
Jose B Caballero1, Antonio M Puertas
1Group of Complex Fluids Physics, Department of Applied Physics, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain.
Abstract:
We report on theoretical results concerning the relation between the liquid-liquid transition and the density anomaly for a family of ramp potentials (hard-core plus linear short range repulsion and linear long range attraction). Using first order perturbation, we have studied the influence of the range of the attractive interactions, taking the repulsive part of the interaction as the reference system. Two different mechanisms of liquid-liquid coexistence have been predicted: attraction and compression. The attractive case is attributed to long ranged potentials, while the second one is obtained when the interaction is shortened. The density anomaly appears linked to regions where the temperature derivative of the density derivative of the energy is bigger (in absolute value) than a limit. This condition is fulfilled when the range of the attractive part of the potential is short enough.
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