Computer Simulations of Two Kinds of Polydisperse Hard-Sphere Systems; Atomic Systems and Colloidal Suspensions

Abstract

We perform two kinds of computer simulations on polydisperse hard‐sphere systems; a molecular‐dynamics simulation on atomic systems and a Brownian‐dynamics simulation on colloidal suspensions. By the analyses of the mean square displacement and the radial distribution function, the simulation results suggest that the long‐time behavior of colloidal suspensions is exactly the same as that of atomic systems. It is also shown that there exist three phase regions, a liquid phase region, a metastable phase region, and a crystal phase region, where the freezing and melting points in polydisperse case are shifted to the values higher than in monodisperse case.