Qualitative theory of the solid-liquid transition

Arno Holz

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1982, vol. 111, issue 1, 217-239

Abstract: Some qualitative attempts to the elucidation of the melting transition is solids are presented. The screening of the long range elastic interactions in the liquid phase is considered to originate from the presence of freely mobile infinitely extended dislocation loops. In contrast to other similar theories it is, however, assumed that cooperative diffusive motion (or “convective” motion) plays an equally important role in releasing any trapped in dislocation configurations which may lead to immobility of the system. The apparent universal nature of the discontinuity of the melting transition is studied on the basis of these concepts via possible nucleation mechanisms. The technical means used to treat dislocation configurations are combinatorics and the path integral formalism. The conclusion reached are that the universal nature of the discontinuity of the melting transition is a consequence of the strongly coupled dynamics of dislocations and cooperative diffusive motion.

Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(82)90090-5

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