Amplitude of the surface tension near the critical point

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 σ=σ0(1TTc)μ, whereas the correlation length diverges as ξ=ξ0(1TTc)ν. Widom's scaling law relates μ to ν as μ=(d1)ν (d<~4 is the dimensionality). Consequently, the combination of amplitudes (σ0kTc)(ξ0)d1 is universal; the first two terms of the ε expansion for this quantity are computed in this work.