Tension and Stiffness of the Hard Sphere Crystal-Fluid Interface
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Tension and stiffness of the hard sphere crystal-fluid interface.
A combination of fundamental measure density functional theory and Monte Carlo computer simulation is used to determine the orientation-resolved interfacial tension and stiffness for the equilibrium hard-sphere crystal-fluid interface. Microscopic density functional theory is in quantitative agreement with simulations and predicts a tension of 0.66k(B)T/σ(2) with a small anisotropy of about 0.0...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.226101