RT Journal Article
T1 Phase diagram of a polydisperse soft-spheres model for liquids and colloids
A1 Fernández Pérez, Luis Antonio
A1 Martín Mayor, Víctor
A1 Verrocchio, P.
AB The phase diagram of soft spheres with size dispersion is studied by means of an optimized Monte Carlo algorithm which allows us to equilibrate below the kinetic glass transition for all size distributions. The system ubiquitously undergoes a first-order freezing transition. While for a small size dispersion the frozen phase has a crystalline structure, large density inhomogeneities appear in the highly disperse systems. Studying the interplay between the equilibrium phase diagram and the kinetic glass transition, we argue that the experimentally found terminal polydispersity of colloids is a purely kinetic phenomenon.
PB American Physical Society
SN 0031-9007
YR 2007
FD 2007-02-23
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51921
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51921
LA eng
NO © 2007 The American Physical Society. We thank V. Erokhin and F. Zamponi for discussions. We were supported by MEC (Spain), through Contracts No. BFM2003-08532, No. FIS2004-05073, No. FPA2004- 02602, CAM (CAM-910383), and by BSCH—UCM. The CPU time utilized (at BIFI and CINECA) amounts to 10 years of 3 GHz PentiumIV
NO MEC (Spain)
NO CAM (Spain)
NO BSCH-UCM (Spain)
DS Docta Complutense
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