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We do not have yet a microscopic global theory of the thermodynamic properties of 4He in the normal phase, inclusive of the region of the critical point. At a very simple level the effect of the attractive part of the interatomic forces has been considered1 in a perturbative way starting from the properties of quantum hard spheres. This is instructive but critical fluctuations are very badly treated in this way and one just has a mean field theory.
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Meroni, A., Reatto, L., Runge, K.J. (1990). Theory of the Critical Point of 4He. In: Aguilera-Navarro, V.C. (eds) Condensed Matter Theories. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0605-4_12
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