Effect of charge-density fluctuations on the order-disorder transition in the lattice restricted primitive models of electrolytes.
Lattice restricted primitive models, where equally charged ions of a diameter sigma are located at sites of a simple cubic lattice with a lattice constant a , are studied within the field-theoretic approach. We focus on the transition between charge-disordered and charge-ordered phases for sigma/a=1 and sigma/a=2 . By using renormalization-group methods we show that at high concentrations of ions the transition is continuous for sigma/a=1 , while for sigma/a=2 it is only first order, as found previously in simulations. For sigma/a=1 the effect of charge-density fluctuations on the positions of the continuous transition and the tricritical point (TCP) is determined within a formalism developed in this work. The temperature and the concentration of ions at the TCP agree very well with simulation results.
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Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-224 Warszawa, Poland.