Criterion for determining clustering versus reentrant melting behavior for bounded interaction potentials.

We examine in full generality the phase behavior of systems whose constituent particles interact by means of potentials that do not diverge at the origin, are free of attractive parts, and decay fast enough to zero as the interparticle separation r goes to infinity. By employing a mean field-density functional theory which is shown to become exact at high temperatures and/or densities, we establish a criterion that determines whether a given system will freeze at all temperatures or it will display reentrant melting and an upper freezing temperature.

• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

• Publication date

  2000-07-06

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Physics, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.031206arXiv cond-mat/0007089PMID 11308641
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