title: Phase behavior of attractive and repulsive ramp fluids: integral equation and computer simulation studies.
abstract: Using computer simulations and a thermodynamically self-consistent integral equation we investigate the phase behavior and thermodynamic anomalies of a fluid composed of spherical particles interacting via a two-scale ramp potential (a hard core plus a repulsive and an attractive ramp) and the corresponding purely repulsive model. Both simulation and integral equation results predict a liquid-liquid demixing when attractive forces are present, in addition to a gas-liquid transition. Furthermore, a fluid-solid transition emerges in the neighborhood of the liquid-liquid transition region, leading to a phase diagram with a somewhat complicated topology. This solidification at moderate densities is also present in the repulsive ramp fluid, but in this case inhibits the fluid-fluid separation.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano, CSIC, Serrano 119, E-28006 Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lomba
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Almarza
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martín
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McBride