Direct Experimental Evidence for a Negative Heat Capacity in the Liquid-to-Gas Phase Transition in Hydrogen Cluster Ions: Backbending of the Caloric Curve

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 18, 2002, Pages

  Gobet, F ^a   Farizon, B ^a   Farizon, M ^a   Gaillard, M J ^a   Buchet, J P ^a   Carre M ^a   Scheier, P ^b   Mark T D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; HELIUM; HYDROGEN; ION BEAMS; IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POSITIVE IONS; SPECIFIC HEAT OF GASES;

CALORIC CURVE; HIGH-ENERGY COLLISIONS; LIQUID-TO-GAS PHASE TRANSITION; NEGATIVE HEAT CAPACITY;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0038648461     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.183403     Document Type: Article

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