Path-integral treatment of the liquid-gas transition: From simple fluids to microemulsions
- 1 August 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 40 (4) , 2477-2493
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.40.2477
Abstract
We propose a unified field-theoretic path-integral treatment of the liquid-gas transition occurring in simple neutral fluids, neutral monodisperse polymer solutions, and monodisperse neutral microemulsions. The theoretical results obtained indicate that all three systems belong to the same Ising-type universality class, which is strongly supported by the most recent experimental results on liquid-gas transitions.Keywords
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