Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2000-02-16
Physical Review E v62 p2501-2509 (2000)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
12 pages including 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.62.2501
Colloidal particles are not simple rigid particles, in general an isolated particle is a system with many degrees of freedom in its own right, e.g., the counterions around a charged colloidal particle.The behaviour of model colloidal particles, with a simple phenomenological model to account for these degrees of freedom, is studied. It is found that the interaction between the particles is not pairwise additive. It is even possible that the interaction between a triplet of particles is attractive while the pair interaction is repulsive. When this is so the liquid phase is either stable only in a small region of the phase diagram or absent altogether.
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