Orientational Order in Liquids: A Possible Scenario of Freezing
- 27 May 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 54 (21), 2359-2362
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.54.2359
Abstract
A new model of liquid-solid freezing, based on the orientational order in a three-dimensional liquid, is proposed. The novel aspect of the model is the inclusion of the coupling between the orientational and elastic degrees of freedom in a dense liquid. This allows for the explicit computation of several thermodynamic quantities of interest near the freezing transition.Keywords
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