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Armin Bergermann1, Martin French1, Manuel Schöttler1
1Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany.
Abstract:
We explore the performance of the Gibbs-ensemble Monte Carlo simulation technique by calculating the miscibility gap of H_{2}-He mixtures with analytical exponential-six potentials. We calculate several demixing curves for pressures up to 500 kbar and for temperatures up to 1800K and predict a H_{2}-He miscibility diagram for the solar He abundance for temperatures up to 1500K and determine the demixing region. Our results are in good agreement with ab initio simulations in the nondissociated region of the phase diagram. However, the particle number necessary to converge the Gibbs-ensemble Monte Carlo method is yet too large to offer a feasible combination with ab initio electronic structure calculation techniques, which would be necessary at conditions where dissociation or ionization occurs.
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