Static and Dynamic Critical Behavior of a Symmetrical Binary Fluid: A Computer Simulation

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2006-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603587v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

35 pages, 13 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2215613

A symmetrical binary, A+B Lennard-Jones mixture is studied by a combination of semi-grandcanonical Monte Carlo (SGMC) and Molecular Dynamics (MD) methods near a liquid-liquid critical temperature $T_c$. Choosing equal chemical potentials for the two species, the SGMC switches identities (${\rm A} \to {\rm B} \to {\rm A}$) to generate well-equilibrated configurations of the system on the coexistence curve for $TT_c$. A finite-size scaling analysis of the concentration susceptibility above $T_c$ and of the order parameter below $T_c$ is performed, varying the number of particles from N=400 to 12800. The data are fully compatible with the expected critical exponents of the three-dimensional Ising universality class. The equilibrium configurations from the SGMC runs are used as initial states for microcanonical MD runs, from which transport coefficients are extracted. Self-diffusion coefficients are obtained from the Einstein relation, while the interdiffusion coefficient and the shear viscosity are estimated from Green-Kubo expressions. As expected, the self-diffusion constant does not display a detectable critical anomaly. With appropriate finite-size scaling analysis, we show that the simulation data for the shear viscosity and the mutual diffusion constant are quite consistent both with the theoretically predicted behavior, including the critical exponents and amplitudes, and with the most accurate experimental evidence.

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