Influence of microscopic parameters on phase behavior of a cell model with Curie-Weiss interaction

Abstract

We investigate how varying two microscopic parameters - cell volume and the ratio between repulsion and attraction intensities - affect the phase behavior of a cell model with a Curie-Weiss-type interaction. The analysis is based on an exact solution previously derived for this model in the grand canonical ensemble. At sufficiently low temperatures, the cell model exhibits multiple first-order phase transitions. By varying the cell volume and the repulsion-to-attraction ratio, we represent a quantitative comparison of the chemical potential and pressure isotherms, along with the pressure-temperature and temperature-density phase diagrams. Our results demonstrate that altering these microscopic parameters induces quantitative changes in the phase diagrams of the cell model.

11 pages, 2 figures