Phase field theory of crystal nucleation in hard sphere liquid

Details Phase field theory of crystal nucleation in hard sphere liquid Phase field theory of crystal nucleation in hard sphere liquid

2003-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306527v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1618213

The phase field theory of crystal nucleation described in [L. Granasy, T. Borzsonyi, T. Pusztai, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 206105 (2002)] is applied for nucleation in hard--sphere liquids. The exact thermodynamics from molecular dynamics is used. The interface thickness for phase field is evaluated from the cross--interfacial variation of the height of the singlet density peaks. The model parameters are fixed in equilibrium so that the free energy and thickness of the (111), (110), and (100) interfaces from molecular dynamics are recovered. The density profiles predicted without adjustable parameters are in a good agreement with the filtered densities from the simulations. Assuming spherical symmetry, we evaluate the height of the nucleation barrier and the Tolman length without adjustable parameters. The barrier heights calculated with the properties of the (111) and (110) interfaces envelope the Monte Carlo results, while those obtained with the average interface properties fall very close to the exact values. In contrast, the classical sharp interface model considerably underestimates the height of the nucleation barrier. We find that the Tolman length is positive for small clusters and decreases with increasing size, a trend consistent with computer simulations.

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