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The essence of simulating criticality inasymmetricfluid models is to discover effectiveunbiasedfinite-size scaling methods that (i) recognize thatboththe critical temperature, TT andthe critical densityp c are unknown and (ii) that can resolve ‘nearby’ critical universality classes. To this endprecisefocused simulations for arangeof box’ sizesL d(inddimensions), are imperative.
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*Active coworkers: Y.C. Kim, E. Luijten, G. Orkoulas and A.Z. Panagiotopoulos; support from the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CHE 99–81772
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Fisher, M.E. (2003). How to Simulate Fluid Criticality: The simplest ionic model has Ising behavior but the proof is not so obvious!. In: Iagolnitzer, D., Rivasseau, V., Zinn-Justin, J. (eds) International Conference on Theoretical Physics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7907-1_33
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