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Freezing between two and three dimensions M. Schmidt and H. Löwen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 4552 (1996). Locate in [bare] [illustrated] list. Get [full paper] as pdf. Extract. The freezing transition of hard spheres confined between two parallel hard plates is studied for different plate separations interpolating between two and three spatial dimensions. Using simulations and free volume theory, the full phase diagram is obtained exhibiting solid-to-solid transitions between buckled, layered, and rhombic crystals. [more]  Read the [full paper] as pdf. |
Hard spheres
The hard sphere system freezes between [2] and [3], and in ~[23] dimensions (tags as contents!), as well as on stripe-patterned substrates [26]. Deep relations to dimensional crossover exist [5] [6]. Hard spheres were immersed in emulsions [9], confined to a flexible container [18], exposed to surfaces of other quenched spheres [37] and of random fiber networks [39], and subject to gravity [51]. Recently, the Rosenfeld functional [5] [6] was generalized to non-additive mixtures [53].[more]