Phase separation and crystallisation of polydisperse hard spheres

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17 June 1998

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9806205

Abstract

Hard spheres with a polydispersity above approximately 8% are shown to crystallise into two phase-separated solid phases. A polydispersity above 8% is too large to be tolerated by a single solid phase but phase separation produces two fractions with polydispersities sufficiently narrow to allow them to crystallise. It may not be possible to observe this in experiment due to the intervention of a glass transition.

Keywords

POLYDISPERSE HARD SPHERES
PHASE SEPARATION
GLASS TRANSITION
POLYDISPERSITY
SOLID PHASE
CRYSTALLISE
SEPARATION

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Version 1, 1998-06-17, ArXiv
Published version: Europhysics Letters, 44 (4), 531.

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