Solid-liquid coexistence of polydisperse fluids via simulation

Details Solid-liquid coexistence of polydisperse fluids via simulation Solid-liquid coexistence of polydisperse fluids via simulation

2008-10-21

arxiv.org/abs/0810.3801v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

8 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3081141

We describe a simulation method for the accurate study of the equilibrium freezing properties of polydisperse fluids under the experimentally relevant condition of fixed polydispersity. The approach is based on the phase switch Monte Carlo method of Wilding and Bruce [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 85}, 5138 (2000)]. This we have generalized to deal with particle size polydispersity by incorporating updates which alter the diameter $\sigma$ of a particle, under the control of a distribution of chemical potential differences $\tilde\mu(\sigma)$. Within the resulting isobaric semi-grand canonical ensemble, we detail how to adapt $\tilde\mu(\sigma)$ and the applied pressure such as to study coexistence, whilst ensuring that the ensemble averaged density distribution $\rho(\sigma)$ matches a fixed functional form. Results are presented for the effects of small degrees of polydispersity on the solid-liquid transition of soft spheres.

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