Equilibrium Phase Behavior of Polydisperse Hard Spheres
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Equilibrium phase behavior of polydisperse hard spheres.
We calculate the phase behavior of hard spheres with size polydispersity, using accurate free energies for the fluid and solid phases. Cloud and shadow curves are found exactly by the moment free energy method, but we also compute the complete phase diagram, taking full account of fractionation. In contrast to earlier, simplified treatments we find no point of equal concentration between fluid ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.91.068301