Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2003-05-22
Phys. Rev. E 68, 046104 (2003)
Physics
Condensed Matter
11 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.68.046104
A recently proposed connection between the threshold for the stability of the iterative solution of integral equations for the pair correlation functions of a classical fluid and the structural instability of the corresponding real fluid is carefully analyzed. Direct calculation of the Lyapunov exponent of the standard iterative solution of HNC and PY integral equations for the 1D hard rods fluid shows the same behavior observed in 3D systems. Since no phase transition is allowed in such 1D system, our analysis shows that the proposed one phase criterion, at least in this case, fails. We argue that the observed proximity between the numerical and the structural instability in 3D originates from the enhanced structure present in the fluid but, in view of the arbitrary dependence on the iteration scheme, it seems uneasy to relate the numerical stability analysis to a robust one-phase criterion for predicting a thermodynamic phase transition.
Fantoni Riccardo
Pastore Giorgio
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