Melting curve

Melting curve

Empirical "one-phase" rules

Ross melting rule

The Ross melting rule states (Eq. 4 ):

$A={\frac {1}{2}}NE(0)-Nk_{B}T\ln \upsilon -Nk_{B}T\ln \upsilon _{f}^{*}$

where $A$ is the Helmholtz energy function, $N$ is the number of cells, $E(0)$ is the potential at the centre of the cell, $k_{B}$ is the Boltzmann constant, $T$ is the temperature, $\upsilon$ is the volume of the cell, and $\upsilon _{f}^{*}$ is the dimensionless reduced volume in configuration space.

References

Related reading

• Hartmut Löwen "Melting, freezing and colloidal suspensions", Physics Reports 237 pp. 249-324 (1994)
• Franz Saija, Santi Prestipino, and Paolo V. Giaquinta "Evaluation of phenomenological one-phase criteria for the melting and freezing of softly repulsive particles", Journal of Chemical Physics 124 244504 (2006)
• Sergey A. Khrapak, Manis Chaudhuri, and Gregor E. Morfill "Communication: Universality of the melting curves for a wide range of interaction potentials", Journal of Chemical Physics 134 241101 (2011)