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The '''Harmonic repulsion potential''' is given by (<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.245701 Ning Xu, Thomas K. Haxton, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel "Equivalence of Glass Transition and Colloidal Glass Transition in the Hard-Sphere Limit", Physical Review Letters '''103''' 245701 (2009)]</ref> Eq. 2): | The '''Harmonic repulsion potential''', designed for studies of [[Polymers |polymer]] [[micelles]], [[dendrimers]], and [[Colloids |colloidal particles]], is given by (<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.245701 Ning Xu, Thomas K. Haxton, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel "Equivalence of Glass Transition and Colloidal Glass Transition in the Hard-Sphere Limit", Physical Review Letters '''103''' 245701 (2009)]</ref> Eq. 2): | ||
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Revision as of 12:05, 26 January 2011
The Harmonic repulsion potential, designed for studies of polymer micelles, dendrimers, and colloidal particles, is given by ([1] Eq. 2):
- Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \Phi_{12}\left( r \right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{lll} \frac{\epsilon}{2} (1-r/\sigma)^{2} & ; & r < \sigma \\ 0 & ; & r \geq \sigma \end{array} \right. }
where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \Phi_{12}\left( r \right) } is the intermolecular pair potential, Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle r := |\mathbf{r}_1 - \mathbf{r}_2|} is the distance between site 1 and site 2. Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \sigma} represents a length scale and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \epsilon} an energy. For example, for the potential looks like
Phase diagram
The phase diagram in the pressure-temperature plane has been calculated by Zhu and Lu [2].
See also
References
- ↑ Ning Xu, Thomas K. Haxton, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel "Equivalence of Glass Transition and Colloidal Glass Transition in the Hard-Sphere Limit", Physical Review Letters 103 245701 (2009)
- ↑ You-Liang Zhu and Zhong-Yuan Lu "Phase diagram of spherical particles interacted with harmonic repulsions", Journal of Chemical Physics 134 044903 (2011)