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SUBMITTER: Bell IH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7943929 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bell Ian H IH Galliero Guillaume G Delage-Santacreu Stéphanie S Costigliola Lorenzo L
The Journal of chemical physics 20200501 19
In this work, we propose a generic and simple definition of a line separating gas-like and liquid-like fluid behaviors from the standpoint of shear viscosity. This definition is valid even for fluids such as the hard sphere and the inverse power law that exhibit a unique fluid phase. We argue that this line is defined by the location of the minimum of the macroscopically scaled viscosity when plotted as a function of the excess entropy, which differs from the popular Widom lines. For hard sphere ...[more]