Hard disk model
Hard disks are hard spheres in two dimensions. The hard disk intermolecular pair potential is given by
- \( \Phi_{12}\left( r \right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{lll} \infty & ; & r < \sigma \\ 0 & ; & r \ge \sigma \end{array} \right. \)
where \( \Phi_{12}\left(r \right) \) is the intermolecular pair potential between two disks at a distance \(r := |\mathbf{r}_1 - \mathbf{r}_2|\), and \( \sigma \) is the diameter of the disk. This page treats hard disks in a two-dimensional space, for three dimensions see the page hard disks in a three dimensional space.
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[edit] Phase transitions
Despite the apparent simplicity of this model/system, the phase behaviour and the nature of the phase transitions remains an area of active study ever since the early work of Alder and Wainwright
[edit] Equations of state
- Main article: Equations of state for hard disks
[edit] Virial coefficients
- Main article: Hard sphere: virial coefficients
[edit] References
- ↑ Nicholas Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, Marshall N. Rosenbluth, Augusta H. Teller and Edward Teller, "Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines", Journal of Chemical Physics 21 pp.1087-1092 (1953)
- ↑ W. W. Wood "Monte Carlo calculations of the equation of state of systems of 12 and 48 hard circles", Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Report LA-2827 (1963)
- ↑ B. J. Alder and T. E. Wainwright "Phase Transition in Elastic Disks", Physical Review 127 pp. 359-361 (1962)
- ↑ C. H. Mak "Large-scale simulations of the two-dimensional melting of hard disks", Physical Review E 73 065104(R) (2006)
- ↑ L. Fejes Tóth "Über einen geometrischen Satz." Mathematische Zeitschrift 46 pp. 83-85 (1940)
- ↑ Jarosław Piasecki, Piotr Szymczak, and John J. Kozak "Prediction of a structural transition in the hard disk fluid", Journal of Chemical Physics 133 164507 (2010)
- ↑ John J. Kozak, Jack Brzezinski and Stuart A. Rice "A Conjecture Concerning the Symmetries of Planar Nets and the Hard disk Freezing Transition", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112 pp. 16059-16069 (2008)
Related reading
- Ya G Sinai "Dynamical systems with elastic reflections", Russian Mathematical Surveys 25 pp. 137-189 (1970)
- Katherine J. Strandburg, John A. Zollweg, and G. V. Chester "Bond-angular order in two-dimensional Lennard-Jones and hard-disk systems", Physical Review B 30 pp. 2755 - 2759 (1984)
- Nándor Simányi "Proof of the Boltzmann-Sinai ergodic hypothesis for typical hard disk systems", Inventiones Mathematicae 154 pp. 123-178 (2003)
- Roland Roth, Klaus Mecke, and Martin Oettel "Communication: Fundamental measure theory for hard disks: Fluid and solid", Journal of Chemical Physics 136 081101 (2012)
[edit] External links
- Hard disks and spheres computer code on SMAC-wiki.
