Soft depletion in binary fluids
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Soft depletion in binary fluids.
We show theoretically that a binary fluid characterized on a mesoscopic scale by purely repulsive short-range interactions without cores possesses an effective attraction between like particles. This "soft depletion effect" is a generic phenomenon driving a mixing-demixing transition in a binary system with pure repulsions.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1063-651X,1095-3787
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.68.010101