%0 Journal Article %A Fernández Tejero, Carlos %T Freezing of hard spheres within the modified weighted density approximation %D 1997 %@ 1063-651X %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/58875 %X The real space version of the modified weighted density approximation is investigated in order to determine the effective liquid density that is used to represent a face centered cubic hard-sphere solid. It is shown that above a threshold average density of the solid the theory is unable to predict the existence of the crystal phase. %~