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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics Année : 2014

Imaging critical fluctuations of pure fluids and binary mixtures

John Hegseth
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Ana Oprisan
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Yves Garrabos
Daniel Null Beysens
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We use optical microscopy techniques to directly visualize the structures that emerge in binary mixtures and pure fluids near their respective critical points. We attempt to understand these structures by studying the image formation using both a phase contrast and a dark field filter to our microscope. We found that images of critical fluctuations for both liquid-liquid and liquid-gas critical systems have gray level intensity histograms with Gaussian shape. For all fluids investigated, the temperature-dependent standard deviation of the Gaussian histogram follows a power law with the same exponent. Since the image intensity fluctuations are determined by order parameter fluctuations, this direct imaging method allowed us to estimate the critical exponent of compressibility with very good accuracy.

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John Hegseth, Ana Oprisan, Yves Garrabos, Daniel Null Beysens. Imaging critical fluctuations of pure fluids and binary mixtures. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2014, 90 (2), 022127 (8 p.). ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.90.022127⟩. ⟨hal-01078383⟩

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