Optimal packing of polydisperse hard-sphere fluids II
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We consider the consequences of keeping the total surface fixed for a polydisperse system of hard spheres. In contrast with a similar model (J. Zhang {\it et al.}, J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 110}, 5318 (1999)), the Percus-Yevick and Mansoori equations of state work very well and do not show a breakdown. For high pressures Monte Carlo simulation we show three mechanically stable polydisperse crystals with either a unimodal or bimodal particle-size distributions.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0004474,
title = {Optimal packing of polydisperse hard-sphere fluids II},
author = {Ronald Blaak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0004474},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages, 8 figures, revtex (accepted by J. Chem. Phys.)