Krekelberg, W.
, Shen, V.
, Errington, J.
and Truskett, T.
(2008),
Residual Multiparticle Entropy Does Not Generally Change Sign Near Freezing, Journal of Chemical Physics
(Accessed April 2, 2025)
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Residual Multiparticle Entropy Does Not Generally Change Sign Near Freezing
Published
Author(s)
William P. Krekelberg, , Jeffrey R. Errington, Thomas M. Truskett
Abstract
The residual multiparticle entropy (RMPE) of two- and three-dimensional fluids changes sign near the freezing line, providing a quasi-universal one-phase rule for the location of the liquid-solid transition. We present new simulation results ford-dimensional hard-sphere fluids (d = 1 5) which show, however, that this freezing criterion fails in other spatial dimensions. The results also call into question the idea that a change in sign of the RMPE implies the emergence of a new kind of local structural order in the fluid.Citation
Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume
128
Pub Type
Journals
Keywords
entropy, freezing, hard hyperspheres, hard spheres, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, thermodynamics
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Created April 12, 2008, Updated October 12, 2021