Amplitude of the surface tension near the critical point
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 29 (1) , 472-475
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.29.472
Abstract
In the vicinity of a critical point, along the coexistence curve for a liquid and its vapor (or for a binary mixture below the consolute point), the surface tension vanishes as , whereas the correlation length diverges as . Widom's scaling law relates to as ( is the dimensionality). Consequently, the combination of amplitudes is universal; the first two terms of the expansion for this quantity are computed in this work.
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