Accurate freezing and melting equations for the Lennard-Jones system

Details Accurate freezing and melting equations for the Lennard-Jones system Accurate freezing and melting equations for the Lennard-Jones system

2011-04-14

arxiv.org/abs/1104.2754v1

J. Chem. Phys. 134, 094108 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

6 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3561698

Analyzing three approximate methods to locate liquid-solid coexistence in simple systems, an observation is made that all of them predict the same functional dependence of the temperature on density at freezing and melting of the conventional Lennard-Jones system. The emerging equations can be written as $T={\mathcal A}\rho^4+{\mathcal B}\rho^2$ in normalized units. We suggest to determine the values of the coefficients ${\mathcal A}$ at freezing and melting from the high-temperature limit, governed by the inverse twelfth power repulsive potential. The coefficients ${\mathcal B}$ can be determined from the triple point parameters of the LJ fluid. This produces freezing and melting equations which are exact in the high-temperature limit and at the triple point, and show remarkably good agreement with numerical simulation data in the intermediate region.

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