Density functional theory for the freezing of soft-core fluids
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Density functional theory for the freezing of soft-core fluids.
We present a simple density functional theory for the solid phases of systems of particles interacting via soft-core potentials. In particular, we apply the theory to particles interacting via repulsive point Yukawa and Gaussian pair potentials. We find qualitative agreement with the established phase diagrams for these systems. The theory is able to account for the bcc-fcc solid transitions of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.72.051501