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SUBMITTER: Das M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6517405 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Das Moupriya M Green Jason R JR
Nature communications 20190514 1
Fluids cooled to the liquid-vapor critical point develop system-spanning fluctuations in density that transform their visual appearance. Despite a rich phenomenology, however, there is not currently an explanation of the mechanical instability in the molecular motion at this critical point. Here, we couple techniques from nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics to analyze the emergence of this singular state. Numerical simulations and analytical models show how the ordering mechanisms of crit ...[more]