Equations of state for crystals of hard spheres

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The stable phase of the hard sphere model at high densities is thought to have a face-centered cubic structure. A number of equations of state have been proposed for this system. The usual procedure to obtain precise equations of state is to fit computer simulation results.

Alder, Hoover and Young equation of state (face-centred cubic solid)

[1]

where where is the volume at close packing, is the pressure, is the temperature and is the Boltzmann constant.

Hall equation of state

[2] Eq. 12:

where

Speedy equation of state

([3], Eq. 2)

where

and (Table 1)

Crystal structure
hexagonal close packed 0.5935 0.7080 0.601
face-centred cubic 0.5921 0.7072 0.601

Almarza equation of state

For the face-centred cubic solid phase [4] Eq. 19:

,

where is the volume per particle, is the volume per particle at close packing, and .

References

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