Point Defects in Hard Sphere Crystals

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3 May 2001

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0105060

Abstract

We report numerical calculations of the concentration of interstitials in hard-sphere crystals. We find that, in a three-dimensional fcc hard-sphere crystal at the melting point, the concentration of interstitials is 2 * 10^-8. This is some three orders of magnitude lower than the concentration of vacancies. A simple, analytical estimate yields a value that is in fair agreement with the numerical results.

Keywords

VALUE THAT IS IN FAIR
HARD SPHERE CRYSTALS
REPORT NUMERICAL
SPHERE CRYSTALS
ESTIMATE YIELDS
POINT DEFECTS
VACANCIES
MELTING

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