Solid-solid transition of the size-polydisperse hard-sphere system

The solid-solid coexistence of a polydisperse hard sphere system is studied by using the Monte Carlo simulation. The results show that for large enough polydispersity the solid-solid coexistence state is more stable than the single-phase solid. The two coexisting solids have different composition distributions but the same crystal structure. Moreover, there is evidence that the solid-solid transition terminates in a critical point as in the case of the fluid-fluid transition.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure

A Remark on Soliton Equation of Mean Curvature Flow

In this short note, we consider self-similar immersions $F: \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}^{n+k}$ of the Graphic Mean Curvature Flow of higher co-dimension. We show that the following is true: Let $F(x) = (x,f(x)), x \in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ be a graph solution to the soliton equation $$\bar{H}(x) + F^{\bot}(x) = 0.$$ Assume $\sup_{\mathbb{R}^{n}}|Df(x)| \le C_{0} < + \infty$. Then there exists a unique smooth function $f_{\infty}: \mathbb{R}^{n}\to \mathbb{R}^k$ such that $$f_{\infty}(x) = \lim_{\lambda \to \infty}f_{\lambda}(x)$$ and $$f_{\infty}(r x)=r f_{\infty}(x)$$ for any real number $r\not= 0$, where $$f_{\lambda}(x) = \lambda^{-1}f(\lambda x).$$Comment: 6 page