Schoonen C, Lutsko JF. Using classical density functional theory to determine crystal-fluid surface tensions.
Phys Rev E 2022;
106:064110. [PMID:
36671108 DOI:
10.1103/physreve.106.064110]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
Classical density functional theory is used to determine the fluid-solid surface tensions for low-index faces of crystals of hard spheres and Lennard-Jones particles. The calculations make use of the recently introduced explicitly stable fundamental measure theory model for hard spheres, and we show that this gives state-of-the-art accuracy compared to simulation. For the Lennard-Jones system, results are presented for both solid-liquid and solid-vapor interfaces, and in both cases the FCC results compare favorably with existing results from the literature. We find that the BCC crystal has significantly lower solid-liquid surface tension than the FCC structure. For the solid-vapor interface, our results indicate that the BCC phase is unstable with respect to transition to the HCP structure, in agreement with various zero-temperature results in the literature.
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