Melting of Hard Cubes
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
The melting transition of a system of hard cubes is studied numerically both in the case of freely rotating cubes and when there is a fixed orientation of the particles (parallel cubes). It is shown that freelly rotating cubes melt through a first-order transition, whereas parallel cubes have a continuous transition in which positional order is lost but bond-orientational order remains finite. This is interpreted in terms of a defect-mediated theory of melting
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9807032,
title = {Melting of Hard Cubes},
author = {E. A. Jagla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9807032},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures included. To appear in Phys. Rev. E