Entropy and the freezing of simple liquids
Abstract
A criterion for the freezing of a liquid is investigated through an analysis of the contribution of multiparticle correlations to the statistical entropy. Molecular-dynamics results are presented for a Lennard-Jones system at two subcritical isotherms in a range of densities across the freezing line.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- May 1992
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1992PhRvA..45.6966G
- Keywords:
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- 05.70.Ce;
- 05.70.Fh;
- 61.20.Gy;
- 61.20.Ja;
- Thermodynamic functions and equations of state;
- Phase transitions: general studies;
- Theory and models of liquid structure;
- Computer simulation of liquid structure