How the overlap of excluded volume determines the configurational energy landscape and "thermodynamics" in the "one to five hard disks in a box" system
arXiv:1903.09100 · doi:10.1016/j.physa.2019.123666
Abstract
In this work, the effects of excluded volume are studied in the "one to five hard disks in a box" system. For one and two disks in different types of cages, the attractive and repulsive forces are calculated analytically. Attractive forces are due to excluded volume overlap, and thus allows to understand that in hard-core systems, second neighbors have an effective interaction, a fact that is usually neglected when considering only collisions with first-neighbors. The same effects are observed for numerical computations with five-disks in a box, as the distributions of distances between disks and disks to walls suggest. The results indicate that first and second-neighbor excluded volume interactions are essential to determine the energy landscape topology. This work supports previous observations that suggests that second-neighbor excluded volume interactions in hard-core systems are related with phase transitions.
arXiv comment19 pp, 7 fig
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