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Plasma Investigations

About the Coulomb phase transition

M. A. Butlitskii^a, B. B. Zelener^ab, B. V. Zelener<sup>a

a</sup> Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b National Engineering Physics Institute "MEPhI", Moscow

Abstract: The possibility of detecting a gas–liquid Coulomb phase transition in nondegenerate nonideal two-component low-temperature plasma is discussed using the results of calculating parameters of the critical point and binodal of the gas–liquid phase transition by the Monte Carlo method in the basic pseudopotential low-temperature plasma “shelf coulomb” model. Based on these results, a range of values of thermodynamic functions is found in which the Coulomb phase transition can be observed. It is shown that this range of parameters is beyond the domain of existence of strongly ionized nondegenerate low-temperature two-component plasma.

UDC: 533.9.01

Received: 30.06.2014
Accepted: 05.11.2014

DOI: 10.7868/S0040364415020076

 English version: High Temperature, 2015, 53:2, 161–166

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