Harmonic repulsion potential
The Harmonic repulsion potential, designed for studies of polymer micelles, dendrimers, and colloidal particles, is given by ([1] Eq. 2):
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Phase diagram[edit]
The phase diagram in the pressure-temperature plane has been calculated by Zhu and Lu [2].
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Ning Xu, Thomas K. Haxton, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel "Equivalence of Glass Transition and Colloidal Glass Transition in the Hard-Sphere Limit", Physical Review Letters 103 245701 (2009)
- ↑ You-Liang Zhu and Zhong-Yuan Lu "Phase diagram of spherical particles interacted with harmonic repulsions", Journal of Chemical Physics 134 044903 (2011)
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