title: Ginzburg-Landau theory of the liquid-solid interface and nucleation for hard spheres.
abstract: The Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional for hard spheres is constructed using the fundamental measure theory approach to density functional theory as a starting point. The functional is used to study the liquid-fcc solid planer interface and the properties of small solid clusters nucleating within a liquid. The surface tension for planer interfaces agrees well with simulation and it is found that the properties of the solid clusters are consistent with classical nucleation theory.
authors.affiliation: Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 231, Blvd. du Triomphe, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. jlutsko@ulb.ac.be
authors.forename: James F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Lutsko