Elasticity of a polydisperse hard-sphere crystal

Details Elasticity of a polydisperse hard-sphere crystal Elasticity of a polydisperse hard-sphere crystal

2008-06-19

arxiv.org/abs/0806.3123v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

17 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.78.011404

A general Monte Carlo simulation method of calculating the elastic constants of polydisperse hard-sphere colloidal crystal was developed. The elastic constants of a size polydisperse hard sphere fcc crystal is calculated. The pressure and three elastic constants(C11, C12 and C44) increase significantly with the polydispersity. It was also found from extrapolation that there is a mechanical terminal polydispersity above which a fcc crystal will be mechanically unstable.

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