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Investigate whether a classical system of idealized hard spheres undergoes a thermodynamic phase transition between fluid and solid states in the absence of attractive interactions.

November 1, 1957The Journal of Chemical Physics

Phase Transition for a Hard Sphere System

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Investigate whether a classical system of idealized hard spheres undergoes a thermodynamic phase transition between fluid and solid states in the absence of attractive interactions.
Numerical simulation and statistical mechanical modeling of rigid hard spheres in a closed volume.
Evaluation of thermodynamic pressure and molecular configurations across varying packing densities.
Identification of a clear first-order transition separating disordered fluid configurations from ordered crystalline arrangements.
Demonstration that repulsive excluded volume forces alone drive spontaneous spatial crystallization.

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Computational simulation reveals a fluid-solid phase transition in a hard sphere system, indicating purely geometric structural ordering without attractive forces.

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Alder et al. (1957) studied this question.

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Computational simulation reveals a fluid-solid phase transition in a hard sphere system, indicating purely geometric structural ordering without attractive forces.

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