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Master crossover functions for one-component fluids
Yves Garrabos1, Carole Lecoutre, Fabien Palencia
1Equipe du Supercritique pour l'Environnement, les Matériaux et l'Espace, Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, UPR 9048, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Bordeaux I, Pessac Cedex, France.
Abstract:
By introducing three well-defined dimensionless numbers, we establish the link between the scale dilatation method able to estimate master (i.e., unique) singular behaviors of the one-component fluid subclass and the universal crossover functions recently estimated [Garrabos and Bervillier, Phys. Rev. E 74, 021113 (2006)] from the bounded results of the massive renormalization scheme applied to the Phi(d)(4)(n) model of scalar order parameter (n=1) and three dimensions (d=3), representative of the Ising-like universality class. The master (i.e., rescaled) crossover functions are then able to fit the singular behaviors of any one-component fluid without adjustable parameter, using only one critical energy scale factor, one critical length scale factor, and two dimensionless asymptotic scale factors, which characterize the fluid critical interaction cell at its liquid-gas critical point. An additional adjustable parameter accounts for quantum effects in light fluids at the critical temperature. The effective extension of the thermal field range along the critical isochore where the master crossover functions seems to be valid corresponds to a correlation length greater than three times the effective range of the microscopic short-range molecular interaction.
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