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The dynamics of a fragmenting finite system can be well modeled by Classical Molecular Dynamics (CMD). Of course in such studies we are not interested in reproducing the data coming from nucleus-nucleus, cluster-cluster or fullerene-fullerene collisions, which are strongly influenced by quantum features, but simply in the possibility that a finite (un)charged system “remembers” of a liquid to gas phase transition which occurs in the infinite case limit [1]. Classical particles interacting through a short range repulsive interaction and a longer range attractive one have an Equation of State (EOS) which resembles a Van Der Waals (VDW) [1,2]. It is also well known that the Nuclear EOS resembles a VDW as well [3], thus classical studies of the instability region are quite justified in order to understand the finite size plus Coulomb effects.
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Bonasera, A. (1999). Critical Phenomena in Finite Systems. In: Blaizot, JP., Campi, X., Ploszajczak, M. (eds) Nuclear Matter in Different Phases and Transitions. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 95. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4556-5_17
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