Freezing of very asymmetric binary hard-sphere mixtures
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Vol. 7 (3) , L13-L17
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/7/3/001
Abstract
The freezing behaviour of a binary hard-sphere mixture with diameter ratio 0.1 is studied within the formalism of the density functional theory (DFT). The stability of a 'sublattice-melt' (SLM) phase, wherein the large spheres are localized on crystal lattice sites and the small ones are fluid-like, is examined. The non-uniform one-particle densities of the small and large spheres in the SLM phase have been calculated. The fluid-solid phase diagram has been drawn.Keywords
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