title: Residual multiparticle entropy does not generally change sign near freezing.
abstract: The residual multiparticle entropy (RMPE) of two- and three-dimensional fluids changes sign near the freezing line, providing a quasiuniversal "one-phase" rule for the location of the liquid-solid transition. We present new simulation results for d-dimensional hard-sphere fluids (d=1-5) which show, however, that this freezing criterion fails in other spatial dimensions. The results also call into question the idea that a change in sign of the RMPE implies the emergence of a new kind of local structural order in the fluid.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0231, USA. krekel@che.utexas.edu
authors.forename: William P
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Krekelberg
authors.forename: Vincent K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Jeffrey R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Errington
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Truskett