Characterization of the order-disorder transition of a charged hard-sphere model

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2003 Nov;68(5 Pt 1):052501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.052501. Epub 2003 Nov 25.

Abstract

Monte Carlo simulations at constant pressure are used to characterize the structure of the restricted primitive model in the tetragonal-ordered solid phase. A method to estimate the location of the order-disorder transition and the densities of the coexistence phases is discussed. The results support the weakly first-order character of the transition.