Transition in the supercritical state of matter: Review of experimental evidence

C Cockrell, VV Brazhkin, K Trachenko - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
A large and mostly unexplored part of the phase diagram lies above the critical point. The
supercritical matter was traditionally believed to be physically homogeneous with no …

The phonon theory of liquids and biological fluids: Developments and applications

D Bolmatov - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Among the three basic states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas), the liquid state has always
eluded general theoretical approaches for describing liquid energy and heat capacity. In this …

Voronoi cell analysis: The shapes of particle systems

EA Lazar, J Lu, CH Rycroft - American Journal of Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Physical systems can often be abstracted as large sets of point-like objects in space, with
each point representing, for example, the position of an atom, colloidal particle, organism, or …

An extension to Voro++ for multithreaded computation of Voronoi cells

J Lu, EA Lazar, CH Rycroft - Computer Physics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Voro++ is a software library written in C++ for computing the Voronoi tessellation, a
technique in computational geometry that is widely used for analyzing systems of particles …

Atomistic structural mechanism for the glass transition: Entropic contribution

D Han, D Wei, J Yang, HL Li, MQ Jiang, YJ Wang… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
A popular Adam-Gibbs scenario has suggested that the excess entropy of glass and liquid
over crystal dominates the dynamical arrest at the glass transition with exclusive contribution …

Structural markers of the Frenkel line in the proximity of Widom lines

CG Pruteanu, JE Proctor, OLG Alderman… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We have performed a neutron scattering experiment on supercritical fluid nitrogen at 160 K
(1.27 TC) over a wide pressure range (7.8 MPa/0.260 g/mL–125 MPa/0.805 g/mL). This has …

Thermodynamics, dynamics, and structure of supercritical water at extreme conditions

TJ Yoon, LA Patel, T Ju, MJ Vigil… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to understand the thermodynamic, dynamic, and
structural changes in supercritical water across the Frenkel line and the melting line have …

Thermal Density Fluctuations and Polymorphic Phase Transitions of Ethane (C2D6) in the Gas/Liquid and Supercritical States

V Pipich, J Kohlbrecher, D Schwahn - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The phase behavior of the liquid C2D6 below and above the critical point was investigated
using small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) in temperature and pressure ranges from 10 to …

Topological extension of the isomorph theory based on the Shannon entropy

TJ Yoon, MY Ha, EA Lazar, WB Lee, YW Lee - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
Isomorph theory is one of the promising theories for understanding the quasiuniversal
relationship between thermodynamic, dynamic, and structural characteristics. Based on the …

Voronoi chains, blocks, and clusters in perturbed square lattices

EA Lazar, A Shoan - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Perturbed lattices provide simple models for studying many physical systems. In this paper
we study the distribution of Voronoi chains, blocks, and clusters with prescribed …