Linear composition bias leaves coexistence compositions unchanged
ID: linear-composition-bias-leaves-coexistence-compositions-unchanged
Adding to a free-energy density adds a constant at fixed total compositional order parameter. In the common-tangent construction for phase coexistence, it shifts the tangent slope by while preserving its points of contact. Thus coexistence compositions are unchanged, whereas their chemical potential shifts. This does not assert unchanged equilibrium composition at a fixed externally imposed chemical potential.
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