Point Defects in Hard Sphere Crystals
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❄️ cond-mat.soft
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concentrationcrystalshard-sphereinterstitialsnumericalpointagreementanalytical
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We report numerical calculations of the concentration of interstitials in hard-sphere crystals. We find that, in a three-dimensional fcc hard-sphere crystal at the melting point, the concentration of interstitials is 2 * 10^-8. This is some three orders of magnitude lower than the concentration of vacancies. A simple, analytical estimate yields a value that is in fair agreement with the numerical results.
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