Tension and stiffness of the hard sphere crystal-fluid interface

Abstract

A combination of fundamental measure density functional theory and Monte Carlo computer simulation is used to determine the orientation-resolved interfacial tension and stiffness for the equilibrium hard-sphere crystal-fluid interface. Microscopic density functional theory is in quantitative agreement with simulations and predicts a tension of 0.66 kT/σ^2 with a small anisotropy of about 0.025 kT and stiffnesses with e.g. 0.53 kT/σ^2 for the (001) orientation and 1.03 kT/σ^2 for the (111) orientation. Here kT is denoting the thermal energy and σthe hard sphere diameter. We compare our results with existing experimental findings.

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