Calculating the free energy of nearly jammed hard-particle packings using molecular dynamics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 509-527

  Donev, Aleksandar ^a,b   Stillinger, Frank H ^a   Torquato, Salvatore ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Free energy; Hard particles; Jamming; Molecular dynamics

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; FREE ENERGY; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; JAMMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; SPHERES;

CELL MODEL; EVENT-DRIVEN; HARD DISC; HARD PARTICLES; HARD-PARTICLE PACKINGS; JAMMED PACKINGS; JAMMING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS ALGORITHMS; NEIGHBOURHOOD; NON-SPHERICAL;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 34447287376     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.12.013     Document Type: Article

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