Hard disk model

Hard disks are hard spheres in two dimensions. The hard disk intermolecular pair potential is given by

$\mathrm{\Phi }(r)=\{\begin{array}{ccc}\mathrm{\infty }& ;& r<\sigma \\ 0& ;& r\ge \sigma \end{array}$

where $\mathrm{\Phi }(r)$ is the intermolecular pair potential between two disks at a distance $r$, and $\sigma$ is the diameter of the disk.

External links

• Hard disks and spheres computer code on SMAC-wiki.

References

1. 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)
2. Ya G Sinai "Dynamical systems with elastic reflections", Russian Mathematical Surveys 25 pp. 137-189 (1970)
3. 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)
4. Carl McBride and Carlos Vega "Fluid solid equilibrium for two dimensional tangent hard disk chains from Wertheim's perturbation theory", Journal of Chemical Physics 116 pp. 1757-1759 (2002)
5. Nándor Simányi "Proof of the Boltzmann-Sinai ergodic hypothesis for typical hard disk systems", Inventiones Mathematicae 154 pp. 123-178 (2003)