Melting of a colloidal crystal

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1997-05-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9705217v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

7 pages, Revtex (using twocolumn style), four figures and postscript file. Submitted to Physica A

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A melting transition for a system of hard spheres interacting by a repulsive Yukawa potential of DLVO form is studied. To find the location of the phase boundary, we propose a simple theory to calculate the free energies for the coexisting liquid and solid. The free energy for the liquid phase is approximated by a virial expansion. The free energy of the crystalline phase is calculated in the spirit of the Lenard-Jonnes and Devonshire (LJD) theory. The phase boundary is found by equating the pressures and chemical potentials of the coexisting phases. When the approximation leading to the equation of state for the liquid breakes down, the first order transition line is also obtained by applying the Lindemann criterion to the solid phase. Our results are then compared with the Monte Carlo simulations.

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