Plastic crystal phases of hard dumbbells and hard spherocylinders

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2696-2697

  Vega, C ^a   Monson, P A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

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EID: 0001329112     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.474626     Document Type: Article

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10. The reduced pressures at coexistence that we calculated for these values of L* are 19.35, 26.68, and 29.47. The reduced solid densities are 1.085, 1.131, and 1.140. The reduced fluid densities are 1.044, 1.108, and 1.127.
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13. Such behavior would be analogous to that exhibited in the temperature-density phase diagram of the Gaussian core model [F. H. Stillinger, J. Chem. Phys. 65, 3973 (1976); F. H. Stillinger and T. A. Weber, ibid. 68, 3837 (1978)].
14. In Ref. 4 it was suggested that the density difference between plastic crystal and fluid might vanish at the triple point. This would violate the phase rule since the equality of densities between two phases reduces the number of degrees of freedom by one.