Scaled variance, skewness, and kurtosis near the critical point of nuclear matter

Understand

The van der Waals (VDW) equation of state predicts the existence of a first-order liquid-gas phase transition and contains a critical point.

• The VDW equation with Fermi statistics is applied to a description of the nuclear matter.
• The nucleon number fluctuations near the critical point of nuclear matter are studied.
• The scaled variance, skewness, and kurtosis diverge at the critical point.