MELTING OF HARD CUBES

Authors
JAGLA EA
Citation
Ea. Jagla, MELTING OF HARD CUBES, Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 58(4), 1998, pp. 4701-4705
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Physycs, Mathematical","Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
Journal title
Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics → ACNP
ISSN journal
1063651X
Volume
58
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
4701 - 4705
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-651X(1998)58:4<4701:>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
The melting transition of a system of hard cubes is studied numericall y both in the Case of freely rotating cubes and when there is a fixed orientation of the particles: parallel cubes. It is shown that freely rotating cubes melt through a first-order transition, whereas parallel cubes have a continuous transition in which positional order is lost but bond-orientational order remains finite. This is interpleted in te rms of a defect-mediated theory of melting. [S1063-651X(98)04010-0].