Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2009-09-02
Phys. Rev E 80 (2009) 031502
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
21 pages, 7 figures, in press on Phys. Rev. E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031502
We study the phase behavior of a classical system of particles interacting through a strictly convex soft-repulsive potential which, at variance with the pairwise softened repulsions considered so far in the literature, lacks a region of downward or zero curvature. Nonetheless, such interaction is characterized by two length scales, owing to the presence of a range of interparticle distances where the repulsive force increases, for decreasing distance, much more slowly than in the adjacent regions. We investigate, using extensive Monte Carlo simulations combined with accurate free-energy calculations, the phase diagram of the system under consideration. We find that the model exhibits a fluid-solid coexistence line with multiple re-entrant regions, an extremely rich solid polymorphism with solid-solid transitions, and water-like anomalies. In spite of the isotropic nature of the interparticle potential, we find that, among the crystal structures in which the system can exist, there are also a number of non-Bravais lattices, such as cI16 and diamond.
Malescio Gianpietro
Prestipino Santi
Saija Franz
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