Phase diagrams

Generic phase diagrams

• Pressure-temperature
• Density-temperature
• Binary phase diagrams
• Eutectic mixtures

Phase diagrams for idealised models

The following are partial or complete phase diagrams for various idealised models:

• Anisotropic particles with octahedral symmetry
• Anisotropic particles with tetrahedral symmetry
• Gay-Berne model
• Hard spherocylinder model
• Lennard-Jones model
• Two center Lennard-Jones model
• Yukawa potential

Recommended reading

• Paul Ehrenfest "Phase conversions in a general and enhanced sense, classified according to the specific singularities of the thermodynamic potential", Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 36 pp. 153-157 (1933)
• C. Vega, E. Sanz, J. L. F. Abascal and E. G. Noya "Determination of phase diagrams via computer simulation: methodology and applications to water, electrolytes and proteins", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 20 153101 (2008)
• R. Ni, A.P. Gantapara, J. de Graaf, R. van Roij, and M. Dijkstra "Phase diagram of colloidal hard superballs: from cubes via spheres to octahedra", Soft Matter 8 8826 (2012)

Experimental phase diagrams:

• David A. Young "Phase Diagrams of the Elements", University of California Press (1991)