Inverse melting in lattice-gas models

Details Inverse melting in lattice-gas models Inverse melting in lattice-gas models

2007-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701369v1

Phys. Rev. E 75 (2007) 011107

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

10 pages, 12 figures

Scientific paper

Inverse melting is the phenomenon, observed in both Helium isotopes, by which a crystal melts when cooled at constant pressure. I investigate discrete-space analogs of inverse melting by means of two instances of a triangular-lattice-gas system endowed with a soft-core repulsion and a short-ranged attraction. To reconstruct the phase diagram, I use both transfer-matrix and Monte Carlo methods, as well as low-temperature series expansions. In one case, a phase behavior reminiscent of Helium emerges, with a loose-packed phase (which is solid-like for low temperatures and liquid-like for high temperatures) extending down to zero temperature for low pressures and the possibility of melting the close-packed solid by isobaric cooling. At variance with previous model studies of inverse melting, the driving mechanism of the present phenomenon is mainly geometrical, related to the larger free-energy cost of a ``vacancy'' in the loose-packed solid than in the close-packed one.

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