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cond-mat.soft1999★ 32 cited
Hard-sphere solids near close packing: Testing theories for crystallization
Benito Groh, Bela Mulder
The freezing transition of hard spheres has been well described by various versions of density-functional theory (DFT). These theories should possess the close-packed crystal as a…
cond-mat.soft1999★ 64 cited
Do cylinders exhibit a cubatic phase?
Ronald Blaak, Daan Frenkel, Bela M. Mulder
We investigate the possibility that freely rotating cylinders with an aspect ratio exhibit a cubatic phase similar to the one found for a system of cut-spheres. We presen…