Fluid-solid phase-separation in hard-sphere mixtures is unrelated to bond-percolation
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
In a recent letter, Buhot proposes that entropy driven phase-separation in hard-core binary mixtures is directly related to a bond-percolation transition. However, at least for binary hard-sphere mixtures, calculations based on an accurate approximation to g_{ll}(r) demonstrate that n_b varies widely along the phase-boundaries calculated directly by simulations, implying that bond-percolation is unrelated to the phase-separation in these systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0001241,
title = {Fluid-solid phase-separation in hard-sphere mixtures is unrelated to bond-percolation},
author = {A. A. Louis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0001241},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Comment, 1 page, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett