RIGOROUS PROOF OF A LIQUID-VAPOR PHASE-TRANSITION IN A CONTINUUM PARTICLE SYSTEM

Authors
LEBOWITZ JL MAZEL AE PRESUTTI E
Citation
Jl. Lebowitz et al., RIGOROUS PROOF OF A LIQUID-VAPOR PHASE-TRANSITION IN A CONTINUUM PARTICLE SYSTEM, Physical review letters, 80(21), 1998, pp. 4701-4704
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
80
Issue
21
Year of publication
1998
Pages
4701 - 4704
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1998)80:21<4701:RPOALP>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
We consider particles in R-d, d greater than or equal to 2, interactin g via attractive pair and repulsive four-body potentials of the Kac ty pe. Perturbing about mean field theory, valid when the interaction ran ge becomes infinite, we prove rigorously the existence of a liquid-gas phase transition when the interaction range is finite but long compar ed to the interparticle spacing.