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Soft matter physics

the entropy-driven crystallization of hard spheres at high packing fraction despite no attractions, first seen in simulation.

In soft matter physics, hard-sphere freezing transition refers to the entropy-driven crystallization of hard spheres at high packing fraction despite no attractions, first seen in simulation. This meaning comes from Alder (1957) in The Journal of Chemical Physics.[1]

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References

Alder, B. J., & Wainwright, T. E. (1957). Phase Transition for a Hard Sphere System. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 27(5), 1208-1209. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1743957

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