Two-step melting transition in confined hard spheres in three dimensions

¹Van't Hoff Laboratory for Physical and Colloid Chemistry, Debye Institute, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands. W.K.Kegel@chem.uu.nl

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

|April 20, 2001

Abstract:

It is shown that certain geometrical constraints on a system of hard spheres lead to two distinct finite-size analogs of melting transitions upon decreasing the average number of spheres at constant volume. Melting takes place from an ordered crystal via an intermediate structure to a fluid. Sphere centers in the intermediate state have a high probability to be found in localized regions that are dramatically different in size and shape.

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