Frustration of freezing in a two dimensional hard-core fluid due to particle shape anisotropy

• Видавець: Інститут фізики конденсованих систем НАН України
• Дата: 2016
• Автори: Huerta, A., Tejeda, D., Henderson, D., Trokhymchuk, A.
• Формат: Стаття
• Мова: English
• Опубліковано: Інститут фізики конденсованих систем НАН України 2016
• Назва видання: Condensed Matter Physics
• Онлайн доступ: http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/155803
• Цитувати: Frustration of freezing in a two dimensional hard-core fluid due to particle shape anisotropy / A. Huerta, D. Tejeda, D. Henderson, A. Trokhymchuk // Condensed Matter Physics. — 2016. — Т. 19, № 2. — С. 23605: 1–9 . — Бібліогр.: 19 назв. — англ.

The freezing mechanism suggested for a fluid composed of hard disks [Huerta et al., Phys. Rev. E, 2006, 74, 061106] is used here to probe the fluid-to-solid transition in a hard-dumbbell fluid composed of overlapping hard disks with a variable length between disk centers. Analyzing the trends in the shape of second maximum of the radial distribution function of the planar hard-dumbbell fluid it has been found that the type of transition could be sensitive to the length of hard-dumbbell molecules. From the NpT Monte Carlo simulations data we show that if a hard-dumbbell length does not exceed 15% the fluid-to-solid transition scenario follows the case of a hard-disk fluid, i.e., the isotropic hard-dumbbell fluid experiences freezing. However, for a hard-dumbbell length larger than 15% fluid-to-solid transition may change to continuous transition, i.e., such an isotropic hard-dumbbell fluid will avoid freezing.