Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2003-01-04
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
14 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
Recently we proposed a microscopic approach to the description of the phase behaviour and critical phenomena in binary fluid mixtures. It was based on the method of collective variables (CV) with a reference system. The approach allowed us to obtain the functional of the Ginzburg-Landau-Wilson (GLW) Hamiltonian expressed in terms of the CV (fluctuating densities). The corresponding set of CV included the variable connected with the order parameter. In this paper we use this approach to the study of the critical behaviour of ionic fluids. For the restricted primitive model (RPM) we obtain the functional of the grand partition function in the phase space of the two fluctuating fields conjugate to the fluctuating densities. First we calculate the phase diagram of the RPM in the mean-field (MF) approximation and then we do this calculation taking into account the terms of the higher orders in the effective Hamiltonian. In the both cases the phase diagrams demonstrate the gas-liquid (GL) and charge ordering phase instabilities. In the latter case, the obtained value for the GL critical temperature is in good agreement with the MC simulation data whereas the critical density is underestimated. The explicit expression found for the grand thermodynamic potential in the vicinity of the GL critical point implies a classical critical behaviour of the RPM.
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