The freezing of hard spheres
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Physics
- Vol. 57 (4) , 809-823
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00268978600100581
Abstract
The sensitivity of the results obtained within a recently proposed theory of freezing is tested against all the underlying approximations: (1) the Percus-Yevick approximation for the direct correlation function, (2) the choice of the effective fluid whose structure scales with that of the solid, (3) the path joining the solid to the fluid phase, and (4) the gaussian approximation for the local density of the solid. The general features of the freezing transition are stable with respect to the approximations while the quantitative agreement with the simulation results improves with the quality of the approximations. We also propose a semi-empirical hard-sphere direct correlation function which may be useful for other applications. © 1986 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publisheKeywords
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