Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2000-12-14
Europhys. Lett. 55, 451 (2001)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
7 pages, 1 figure, typeset with EUROTeX, uses epsfig
Scientific paper
10.1209/epl/i2001-00436-6
Ideal bosons and classical ring polymers formed via self-assembly, are known to have the same partition function, and so analogous phase transitions. In ring polymers, the analogue of Bose-Einstein condensation occurs when a ring polymer of macroscopic size appears. We show that a transition of the same general form occurs within a whole class of systems with self-assembly, and illustrate it with the emulsification failure of a microemulsion phase of water, oil and surfactant. As with Bose-Einstein condensation, the transition occurs even in the absence of interactions.
Cuesta Antonio J.
Sear Richard P.
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