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Crystallization and phase-separation in non-additive binary hard-sphere mixtures

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We calculate for the first time the full phase-diagram of an asymmetric non-additive hard-sphere mixture. The non-additivity strongly affects the crystallization and the fluid-fluid phase-separation. The global topology of the phase-diagram is controlled by an effective size-ratio y_{eff}, while the fluid-solid coexistence scales with the depth of the effective potential well.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9911384,
  title  = {Crystallization and phase-separation in non-additive binary hard-sphere mixtures},
  author = {A. A. Louis and R. Finken and J. P. Hansen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9911384},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. E