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Phys. Rev. A 55, R3315–R3318 (1997)

Quantum fluctuations affect the critical properties of noble gases

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Akira Ohnishi1,2 and Jørgen Randrup2
1Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan
2Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

Received 26 December 1996; published in the issue dated May 1997

Interacting argon atoms are simulated with a recently developed quantum Langevin transport treatment that takes approximate account of the quantum fluctuations inherent in microscopic many-body descriptions based on wave packets. The mass distribution of the atomic clusters is affected significantly near the critical temperature and thus it may be important to take account of quantum fluctuations in molecular-dynamics simulations of cluster formation processes.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.55.R3315
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.55.R3315
PACS:
36.40.Sx, 02.70.Ns, 82.20.Fd
 
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