Correlation function decay in linear continuum systems

George Ruppeiner

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1991, vol. 177, issue 1, 247-252

Abstract: In this paper, written for the volume commemorating the sixtieth birthday of Michael Fisher, I reexamine the long-range decay of the pair correlation function in one-dimensional continuum models where attractive and repulsive potentials are present together. I argue that the correlation function decay goes effectively from monotonic to oscillatory at a pseudo-phase-transition from a gas-like phase of clusters to a liquid-like phase. Though there is no actual discontinuity, this pseudo-phase-transition resembles an “anomalous first order phase transition”.

Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(91)90160-E

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