Mean-field cage theory for the freezing of hard-sphere fluids.
Using some observations and some mean-field approximations, we develop a mean-field cage theory for the freezing of hard-sphere fluids with v(f) > or =a(d) and obtain the freezing densities as functions of the closest-packing densities and the spatial densities, which are in good agreement with the experimental and simulation results.
Wang
Xian-Zhi
XZ
Department of Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China.