TY - JOUR
T1 - Polydispersity effect on solid-fluid transition in hard sphere systems
AU - Nogawa, T.
AU - Watanabe, H.
AU - Ito, N.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by KAUST GRP(KUK-I1-005-04) and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Contracts No. 19740235).
PY - 2010/2/1
Y1 - 2010/2/1
N2 - The solid-fluid transition of the hard elastic particle system with size polydispersity is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. Using nonequilibrium relaxation from the mixed initial condition we determines the melting point where the first order transition between the solid, fcc crystal, and fluid states occurs. It is found that the density gap between the bistable states decreases with increasing the strength of the polydispersity and continuously approaches to zero at the critical point.
AB - The solid-fluid transition of the hard elastic particle system with size polydispersity is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. Using nonequilibrium relaxation from the mixed initial condition we determines the melting point where the first order transition between the solid, fcc crystal, and fluid states occurs. It is found that the density gap between the bistable states decreases with increasing the strength of the polydispersity and continuously approaches to zero at the critical point.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.phpro.2010.01.208
DO - 10.1016/j.phpro.2010.01.208
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:76249132590
SN - 1875-3884
VL - 3
SP - 1475
EP - 1479
JO - Physics Procedia
JF - Physics Procedia
IS - 3
T2 - 22nd Workshop on Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics, CSP 2009
Y2 - 23 February 2009 through 27 February 2009
ER -