A Phase Transition in a Widom-Rowlinson Model with Curie-Weiss Interaction

TL;DR

This paper introduces and analyzes a continuum Widom-Rowlinson model with Curie-Weiss interactions, revealing a phase transition characterized by explicit phase diagrams and equations of state.

Contribution

It provides a rigorous theoretical framework for phase transitions in a continuum Widom-Rowlinson model with Curie-Weiss interactions, including explicit phase diagrams.

Findings

Existence of a phase transition in the model.

Explicit construction of thermodynamic phases and phase diagrams.

Derivation and analysis of equations of state.

Abstract

An analog of the continuum Widom-Rowlinson model is introduced and studied. Its two-component version is a gas of point particles of types 0 and 1 placed in $\mathds{R}^d$, in which like particles do not interact and unlike particles contained in a vessel of volume $V$ repel each other with intensity $a/V$. The one-component version is a gas of particles with multi-particle interactions of Curie-Weiss type. Its thermodynamic behavior is obtained by integrating out the coordinates of one of the components of the two-component version. In the grand canonical setting, a rigorous theory of phase transitions in this model is developed and discussed. In particular, for both versions thermodynamic phases and phase diagrams are explicitly constructed and the equations of state are obtained and analyzed.