Close-packed configurations, 'symmetry breaking', and the freezing transition in density functional theory

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作者
Rosenfeld, Y
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[1] H H Wills Physics Laboratory, Bristol University, Royal Fort, Bristol BS8 1TL, Tyndall Avenue
[2] Nuclear Research Centre, Negev, Beer-Sheva 84190
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10.1088/0953-8984/8/50/004
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O469 [凝聚态物理学];
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070205 ;
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It is shown that the density functional theory for the non-uniform hard-sphere fluid, which employs the geometrically based fundamental-measure free-energy functional, (1) has the mechanism to locate situations of hard-sphere closest packing, (2) features 'symmetry breaking' that separates the solid-like and liquid-like solutions for the density profile equation, and (3) contains the free-volume cell theory as a special limit case.
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