Freezing of He-4 and its liquid-solid interface from Density Functional Theory

Details Freezing of He-4 and its liquid-solid interface from Density Functional Theory Freezing of He-4 and its liquid-solid interface from Density Functional Theory

2005-09-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509200v1

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Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.72.214522

We show that, at high densities, fully variational solutions of solid-like type can be obtained from a density functional formalism originally designed for liquid 4He. Motivated by this finding, we propose an extension of the method that accurately describes the solid phase and the freezing transition of liquid 4He at zero temperature. The density profile of the interface between liquid and the (0001) surface of the 4He crystal is also investigated, and its surface energy evaluated. The interfacial tension is found to be in semiquantitative agreement with experiments and with other microscopic calculations. This opens the possibility to use unbiased DF methods to study highly non-homogeneous systems, like 4He interacting with strongly attractive impurities/substrates, or the nucleation of the solid phase in the metastable liquid.

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