Solid-solid transition of the size-polydisperse hard-sphere system
arXiv:0807.2004 · doi:10.1063/1.3056412
Abstract
The solid-solid coexistence of a polydisperse hard sphere system is studied by using the Monte Carlo simulation. The results show that for large enough polydispersity the solid-solid coexistence state is more stable than the single-phase solid. The two coexisting solids have different composition distributions but the same crystal structure. Moreover, there is evidence that the solid-solid transition terminates in a critical point as in the case of the fluid-fluid transition.
9 pages, 4 figures
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