Review Article

Energy of the Conduction Band in Near Critical Point Fluids

Figure 4

Local Wigner-Seitz calculation for CH4. The calculated (a) average electron/perturber polarization energy and (b) zero-point kinetic energy plotted as a function of the CH4 number density , at noncritical temperatures (solid lines), and on an isotherm near the critical temperature (dashed lines). Adapted from [1, 2].
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