Subjects: Physics submitted time 2016-05-08
Abstract： Using the reference hypernetted chain (RHNC) integral equation theory and a rigorous stability analysis method, we investigate the phase behavior of a mixture of hard-sphere dipoles and neutral hard spheres based on the correlations of the homogeneous isotropic phase. Lowering the temperature down to the points where the RHNC equations fail to have a solution, several fluctuations strongly increase. At low densities our results indicate the onset of chain formation, which is similar with the pure DHS system. At high densities, the results indicate the appearance of isotropic-to-ferroelectric transitions (small neutral hard spheres concentrations) and demixing transitions (large neutral hard spheres concentrations).
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Subjects: Physics >> The Physics of Elementary Particles and Fields submitted time 2016-05-08
Abstract： The phase transition of Heisenberg fluid has been investigated with the density functional theory in mean-field approximation (MF). The matrix of the second derivatives of the grand canonical potential Omega with respect to the particle density fluctuations and the magnetization fluctuations has been investigated and diagonalized. The smallest eigenvalue being 0 signalizes the phase instability and the related eigenvector characterizes this phase transition. We find a Curie line where the order parameter is pure magnetization and a spinodal where the order parameter is a mixture of particle density and magnetization. Along the spinodal, the character of phase in stability changes continuously from predominant condensation to predominant ferromagnetic phase transition with the decrease of total density. The spinodal meets the Curie line at the critical end point with the reduced density rho* = rho sigma(3) = 0.224 and the reduced temperature T* = kT/epsilon = 1.87 (sigma is the diameter of Heisenberg hard sphere and epsilon is the coupling constant).
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