Ion-induced nucleation in polar one-component fluids.
We present a Ginzburg-Landau theory of ion-induced nucleation in a gas phase of polar one-component fluids, where a liquid droplet grows with an ion at its center. By calculating the density profile around an ion, we show that the solvation free energy is larger in gas than in liquid at the same temperature on the coexistence curve. This difference much reduces the nucleation barrier in a metastable gas.
Kitamura
Hikaru
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Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan. kitamura@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Onuki
Akira
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