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Effect of Size Dispersity on the Melting Transition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

M. R. Sadr-Lahijany ,
P. Ray ,
S. T. Harrington  and
H. E. Stanley
M. R. Sadr-Lahijany
Affiliation:
Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
P. Ray
Affiliation:
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Madras - 600 113, India
S. T. Harrington
Affiliation:
Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
H. E. Stanley
Affiliation:
Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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Abstract

We present a molecular dynamics simulation study of the liquid-solid transition in a two dimensional system consisting of particles of two different sizes interacting via a truncated Lennard-Jones potential. We work with equal number of particles of each kind and the dispersity Δ in the sizes of the particles is varied by changing the ratio of the particle sizes only. For the monodisperse case (Δ = 0) and for small values of Δ, we find a first order liquid-solid transition on increasing the volume fraction p of the particles. As we increase Δ, the first-order transition coexistence region weakens gradually and completely disappears at high dispersities around Δ = 0.10. At these values of dispersity the high density phase lacks long range translational order but possesses orientational order with a large but finite correlation length. The consequences of this effect of dispersity on the glass transition and on the melting transition in general are discussed.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 455: Symposium T – Glasses and Glass Formers–Current Issues , 1996 , 447
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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