Solid-solid transition of the size-polydisperse hard-sphere system
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-13 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
The solid-solid coexistence of a polydisperse hard sphere system is studied by using the Monte Carlo simulation. The results show that for large enough polydispersity the solid-solid coexistence state is more stable than the single-phase solid. The two coexisting solids have different composition distributions but the same crystal structure. Moreover, there is evidence that the solid-solid transition terminates in a critical point as in the case of the fluid-fluid transition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.2004,
title = {Solid-solid transition of the size-polydisperse hard-sphere system},
author = {Mingcheng Yang and Hongru Ma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2004},
year = {2009}
}
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9 pages, 4 figures