Molecular dynamics analysis of particle number fluctuations in the mixed phase of a first-order phase transition
Molecular dynamics analysis of particle number fluctuations in the mixed phase of a first-order phase transition
Molecular dynamics simulations are performed for a finite nonrelativistic system of particles with Lennard-Jones potential. We study the effect of liquid-gas mixed phase on particle number fluctuations in coordinate subspace. A metastable region of the mixed phase, the so-called nucleation region, is analyzed in terms of a noninteracting cluster model. …