Phase diagram of softly repulsive systems: The Gaussian and inverse-power-law potentials

Details Phase diagram of softly repulsive systems: The Gaussian and inverse-power-law potentials Phase diagram of softly repulsive systems: The Gaussian and inverse-power-law potentials

2005-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510496v1

The Journal of Chemical Physics 123, 144110 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

22 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2064639

We redraw, using state-of-the-art methods for free-energy calculations, the phase diagrams of two reference models for the liquid state: the Gaussian and inverse-power-law repulsive potentials. Notwithstanding the different behavior of the two potentials for vanishing interparticle distances, their thermodynamic properties are similar in a range of densities and temperatures, being ruled by the competition between the body-centered-cubic (BCC) and face-centered-cubic (FCC) crystalline structures and the fluid phase. We confirm the existence of a reentrant BCC phase in the phase diagram of the Gaussian-core model, just above the triple point. We also trace the BCC-FCC coexistence line of the inverse-power-law model as a function of the power exponent $n$ and relate the common features in the phase diagrams of such systems to the softness degree of the interaction.

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