| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 48, Number 4, November II 1999
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 415 - 420 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: structure, mechanical and thermal properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1999-00499-9 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Order and disorder in hard-sphere packings
1
Groupe Matière Condensée et Matériaux, UMR CNRS 6626, Université de Rennes I 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
2
Service de Physique Théorique, Direction des Sciences de la Matière, CEA/Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Received:
22
March
1999
Accepted:
10
September
1999
We study the crystallisation of hard-sphere systems and compare the resulting packings with packings belonging to the stable branch of the phase diagram. This comparison is done by studying the distribution of a local bond order parameter which gives precise information on the structure and allows to detect without ambiguity the presence of fcc or hcp crystallisation in the packing. We have found, as expected, that the fcc symmetry is more stable than the hcp symmetry in crystallised systems. Furthermore, the fraction of hcp clusters in the system decreases as the propensity to crystallise increases. The method developed here for hard-sphere systems can be applied to any kind of soft-sphere potential systems.
PACS: 64.60.Cn – Order-disorder transformations; statistical mechanics of model systems / 05.20.-y – Classical statistical mechanics / 64.70.Dv – Solid-liquid transitions
© EDP Sciences, 1999
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