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Phase separation and crystallisation of polydisperse hard spheres
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Phase separation and crystallisation of polydisperse hard spheres

Europhysics Letters, Vol.44, pp.531-535
17/06/1998

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Hard spheres with a polydispersity above approximately 8% are shown to crystallise into two phase-separated solid phases. A polydispersity above 8% is too large to be tolerated by a single solid phase but phase separation produces two fractions with polydispersities sufficiently narrow to allow them to crystallise. It may not be possible to observe this in experiment due to the intervention of a glass transition.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9806205v1View
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1998-00500-3View

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