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How Do Droplets Depend on the System Size? Droplet Condensation and Nucleation in Small Simulation Cells

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Using large scale grandcanonical Monte Carlo simulations in junction with a multicanonical reweighting scheme we investigate the liquid-vapor transition of a Lennard—Jones fluid. Particular attention is focused on the free energy of droplets and the transition between different system configurations as the system tunnels between the vapor and the liquid state as a function of system size. The results highlight the finite size dependence of droplet properties in the canonical ensemble and free energy barriers along the path from the vapor to the liquid in the grandcanonical ensemble.

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  1. Institut für Physik, WA331, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, D55099, Mainz, Germany

    P. Virnau, L. González MacDowell, M. Müller & K. Binder

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  1. Aerodynamisches Institut der RWTH Aachen, Wuellnerstraße zw. 5 u. 7, 52062, Aachen, Germany

    Egon Krause

  2. Institut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Willi Jäger

  3. High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart — HLRS, Allmandring 30, 70550, Stuttgart, Germany

    Michael Resch

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Virnau, P., MacDowell, L.G., Müller, M., Binder, K. (2003). How Do Droplets Depend on the System Size? Droplet Condensation and Nucleation in Small Simulation Cells. In: Krause, E., Jäger, W., Resch, M. (eds) High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ’03. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55876-4_10

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