2000/07/17 by Yan Levin · 15 citations
Chemistry · Materials Science · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Argument (complex analysis) #Astronomy #Bridge (graph theory) #Chemistry #Classical mechanics #Crystallization #Epistemology #Gravitation #Gravitational field #Hard spheres #Material Dynamics and Properties #Materials science #Medicine #Philosophy #Physics #Planetary Science and Exploration #SPHERES #Simple (philosophy) #Theoretical physics #Thermodynamics #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0378-4371(00)00459-3
published in Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 287(1-2), 100-104 (Elsevier BV) · Physica A (in press)
arxiv created 2000/07/17 · openalex publication_date 2000/11/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We present a simple argument to account for crystallization of hard spheres under the action of a gravitational field. The paper attempts to bridge the gap between two communities of scientists, one working on granular materials and the other on inhomogeneous liquid state theory.