We study the latent heat of the liquid-gas phase transition in symmetric nuclear matter using self-consistent mean-field calculations with a few Skyrme forces. The temperature dependence of the latent heat is rather independent of the mean-field parametrization and can be characterized by a few parameters. At low temperatures, the latent heat tends to the saturation energy. Near the critical po...

We consider the φ quantum field theory in two and three spacetime dimensions. In the single phase region the physical mass (inverse correlation length) m(σ) decreases continuously to zero as the bare mass parameter σ approaches a critical value σc from above. In three dimensions the critical point σc is in the single phase region and the physical mass vanishes there, m(σc) = 0. A consequence of...