Crystallization of fluids: Free-energy functional for symmetry breaking first-order freezing transition Export

@article{citeulike:6029127, abstract = {A free-energy functional for a crystal that contains both the symmetry conserved and symmetry broken parts of the direct pair correlation function is developed. To test how accurately this free-energy functional describes the symmetry breaking first-order phase transition of freezing, we use it to investigate the crystallization of fluids interacting via the inverse power potential; u(r)=[?](s/r)n. In agreement with simulation results we find that under the fluid-solid co-existence the f.c.c. structure is more stable for n=12, whereas for soft repulsions (n[?] 6) the b.c.c. structure is more stable.}, author = {Singh, Swarn L. and Singh, Yashwant}, citeulike-article-id = {6029127}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/88/16005}, doi = {10.1209/0295-5075/88/16005}, journal = {EPL (Europhysics Letters)}, keywords = {crystallization, fluid, freezing, phase-transition, solid, symmetry}, number = {1}, pages = {16005+}, posted-at = {2009-10-28 22:00:43}, priority = {2}, title = {Crystallization of fluids: Free-energy functional for symmetry breaking first-order freezing transition}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/88/16005}, volume = {88}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6029127 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6029127 N2 - A free-energy functional for a crystal that contains both the symmetry conserved and symmetry broken parts of the direct pair correlation function is developed. To test how accurately this free-energy functional describes the symmetry breaking first-order phase transition of freezing, we use it to investigate the crystallization of fluids interacting via the inverse power potential; u(r)=[?](s/r)n. In agreement with simulation results we find that under the fluid-solid co-existence the f.c.c. structure is more stable for n=12, whereas for soft repulsions (n[?] 6) the b.c.c. structure is more stable. IS - 1 JF - EPL (Europhysics Letters) TI - Crystallization of fluids: Free-energy functional for symmetry breaking first-order freezing transition VL - 88 SP - 16005 KW - crystallization KW - fluid KW - freezing KW - phase-transition KW - solid KW - symmetry AU - Singh, Swarn AU - Singh, Yashwant PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/88/16005 ER -