The hard-sphere glass: metastability versus density of random close packing
- 10 March 1986
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics
- Vol. 19 (7) , L135-L139
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3719/19/7/001
Abstract
The density functional theory is applied to the freezing of the hard-sphere fluid into a dense-random-packed glass configuration. It is shown that the relative thermodynamic stability of the fluid, glass and crystal phases is completely determined by only two structural features: the number of nearest neighbours and the density of close packing.Keywords
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