Jim Lutsko

Jim Lutsko

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My interests include Statistical Physics; Crystallization; Density Functional Theory, Simulation methods - particularly rare event techniques, Protein physics, Granular physics and Crystal Growth. I am based in the Physics of Complex Systems and Statistical Mechanics group at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

[031] Thermodynamic properties of the fluid, fcc, and bcc phases of monodisperse charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions within the Yukawa model

The thermodynamic properties of the Yukawa model for colloidal suspensions are determined theoretically from the Rogers-Young integral equation for the fluid phase and from a recently introduced van der Waals–like theory for the solid phases. Very good agreement with the Monte Carlo simulations of Meijer and Frenkel [J. Chem. Phys. 94, 2269 (1991)] is found for both the fluid and the (fcc-bcc) solid phases. The location of the two-phase coexistences, however, is shown to involve such small free-energy and density changes that no definite statements about the phase diagram are possible within the present accuracy.

Recommended citation: C. F. Tejero, J. F. Lutsko, J. L. Colot, and M. Baus, "Thermodynamic properties of the fluid, fcc, and bcc phases of monodisperse charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions within the Yukawa model", Phys. Rev. A, 46, 3373 (1992)
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