Optimal packing of polydisperse hard-sphere fluids II
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We consider the consequences of keeping the total surface fixed for a polydisperse system of N hard spheres. In contrast with a similar model (J. Zhang et al., J. Chem. Phys. 110, 5318 (1999)), the Percus-Yevick and Mansoori equations of state work very well and do not show a breakdown . For high pressures Monte Carlo simulation we show three mechanically stable polydisperse crystals with either a unimodal or bimodal particle-size distributions.
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