The effect of an external magnetic field on the gas-liquid transition in the Ising spin fluid

Abstract

The theoretical phase diagrams of the magnetic (Ising) lattice fluid in an external magnetic field is presented. It is shown that, depending on the strength of the nonmagnetic interaction between particles, various effects of external field on the Ising fluid take place. In particular, at moderate values of the nonmagnetic attraction the field effect on the gas-liquid critical temperature is nonmonotoneous. A justification of such behavior is given. If short-range correlations are taken into account (within a cluster approach), the Curie temperature also depend on the nonmagnetic interaction.Comment: 4 RevTex pages, 3 EPS picture