title: Accurate Monte Carlo simulations on FCC and HCP Lennard-Jones solids at very low temperatures and high reduced densities up to 1.30.
abstract: Canonical Monte Carlo simulations on face-centered cubic (FCC) and hexagonal closed packed (HCP) Lennard-Jones (LJ) solids are conducted at very low temperatures (0.10 ≤ T(∗) ≤ 1.20) and high densities (0.96 ≤ ρ(∗) ≤ 1.30). A simple and robust method is introduced to determine whether or not the cutoff distance used in the simulation is large enough to provide accurate thermodynamic properties, which enables us to distinguish the properties of FCC from that of HCP LJ solids with confidence, despite their close similarities. Free-energy expressions derived from the simulation results are also proposed, not only to describe the properties of those individual structures but also the FCC-liquid, FCC-vapor, and FCC-HCP solid phase equilibria.
authors.affiliation: Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82070, USA.
authors.forename: Hertanto
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Adidharma
authors.affiliation: Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona 8471, USA.
authors.forename: Sugata P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Tan