Pressure and entropy of hard-sphere crystals
- 25 May 1998
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Vol. 10 (20) , 4387-4391
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/10/20/006
Abstract
The pressure and entropy of the face-centred cubic and hexagonal close-packed hard-sphere crystals were measured. At the melting density, the hcp crystal has a higher pressure. A precise equation of state is reported for the crystals. The equation extrapolates to a spinodal instability in the metastable low-density crystal.Keywords
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