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Sound velocities of Lennard-Jones systems near the liquid-solid phase transition

Soft Condensed Matter 2020-08-04 v1 Statistical Mechanics Chemical Physics

Abstract

Longitudinal and transverse sound velocities of Lennard-Jones systems are calculated at the liquid-solid coexistence using the additivity principle. The results are shown to agree well with the ``exact'' values obtained from their relations to excess energy and pressure. Some consequences, in particular, in the context of the Lindemann's melting rule and Stokes-Einstein relation between the self-diffusion and viscosity coefficients are discussed. Comparison with available experimental data on the sound velocities of solid argon at melting conditions is provided.

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@article{arxiv.2008.00858,
  title  = {Sound velocities of Lennard-Jones systems near the liquid-solid phase transition},
  author = {Sergey Khrapak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.00858},
  year   = {2020}
}

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7 pages, 5 figures, published in Molecules