Liquid-Vapor Phase Transitions for Systems with Finite Range Interactions

Abstract

We consider particles in ${\mathbb{R}}^d,d\ge 2$ interacting via attractive pair and repulsive four-body potentials of the Kac type. Perturbing about mean field theory, valid when the interaction range becomes infinite, we prove rigorously the existence of a liquid-gas phase transition, when the interaction range is finite but long compared to the interparticle spacing for a range of temperature.

60 pages, in TeX, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], to appear in the Journal of Statistical Physics

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