Ramp model

The ramp model, proposed by Jagla and sometimes known as the Jagla model, is described by:

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where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \Phi_{12}(r)} is the intermolecular pair potential, Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle r := |\mathbf{r}_1 - \mathbf{r}_2|} , Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle W_r > 0} and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle W_a < 0} .

Graphically, one has:

where the red line represents an attractive implementation of the model, and the green line a repulsive implementation.

Critical points

For the particular case Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle W_r^*=3.5; W_a^*=-1.0, d_a^*=1.72, d_c^*=3.0 } , the liquid-vapour critical point is located at :

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle T_c^* = 1.487 \pm 0.003}

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \rho_c \sigma^3 = 0.103 \pm 0.001}

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p_c^* \simeq 0.042}

and the liquid-liquid critical point:

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Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \rho_c \sigma^3 \simeq 0.380 \pm 0.002}

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p_c^*/T_c^* \simeq 0.49 \pm 0.01}

Repulsive Ramp Model

In the repulsive ramp case, where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle W_a = 0 } , neither liquid-vapor nor liquid-liquid stable equilibria occur . However, for this model a low density crystalline phase has been found. This solid phase presents re-entrant melting, i.e. this solid melts into the fluid phase as the pressure is increased.

Lattice Gas Repulsive Ramp

Recently, similar behaviour has been found in a three-dimensional lattice gas ramp model

The system is defined on a simple cubic lattice. The interaction is that of a Lattice hard sphere model with exclusion of nearest neighbors of occupied positions plus a repulsive interaction with next-to-nearest neighbors.

The potential energy of the system is then given by:

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where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \epsilon > 0 }  ; Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle [ij] } refers to all the pairs of sites that are second neighbors, and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle S_k } indicates the occupation of site Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle k } (0 indicates empty site, 1 indicates occupied site).

See also

• Polyamorphism: Ramp model

References

Related literature

• Limei Xu, Sergey V. Buldyrev, C. Austen Angell, and H. Eugene Stanley "Thermodynamics and dynamics of the two-scale spherically symmetric Jagla ramp model of anomalous liquids", Physical Review E 74 031108 (2006)
• Limei Xu, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Nicolas Giovambattista, C. Austen Angell, and H. Eugene Stanley "A monatomic system with a liquid-liquid critical point and two distinct glassy states", Journal of Chemical Physics 130 054505 (2009)