Equilibrium fluid-solid coexistence of hard spheres

We present a tethered Monte Carlo simulation of the crystallization of hard spheres. Our method boosts the traditional umbrella sampling to the point of making practical the study of constrained Gibbs’ free energies depending on several crystalline order parameters. We obtain high-accuracy estimates...

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Autores: Fernández Pérez, Luis Antonio, Martín Mayor, Víctor, Seoane Bartolomé, Beatriz, Verrocchio, P.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/45039
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/45039
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:51-73
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1st-order phase-transitions
Lennard-Jones system
Monte-Carlo
Free-energy
Colloidal spheres
Droplets
Simulations
Nucleation
Crystals
Entropy.
Física (Física)
Física-Modelos matemáticos
22 Física
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Sumario:We present a tethered Monte Carlo simulation of the crystallization of hard spheres. Our method boosts the traditional umbrella sampling to the point of making practical the study of constrained Gibbs’ free energies depending on several crystalline order parameters. We obtain high-accuracy estimates of the fluid-crystal coexistence pressure for up to 2916 particles (enough to accommodate fluid-solid interfaces). We are able to extrapolate to infinite volume the coexistence pressure [p_(co) = 11.5727(10)k_(B)T/σ^(3)] and the interfacial free energy [γ_({100}) = 0.636(11)k_(B)T/σ^(2)].