We review a theory of freezing based on the density-functional approach andcompare a
variety of its versions. The application of the theory to the freezing of various simple and …

Recent progress in the microscopic description of the liquid-solid coexistence is examined
critically and put into historical perspective. The emphasis is on the density functional …

The present status of the density-functional theory of the liquid-solid transition Page 1
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter REVIEW ARTICLE The present status of the density-functional …

A first-principles order-parameter theory of the fluid-solid transition is presented in this
paper. The thermodynamic potential Ω of the system is computed as a function of order …

Exploring important theories for understanding freezing and the liquid-glass transition, this
book is useful for graduate students and researchers in soft-condensed matter physics …

We have analysed the recent theories of freezing and found that all results obtained hitherto
are biased numerically by the early truncation of slowly converging series. As a result the …

We review the modem density functional theory of freezing, and compare different versions
of it. New results for the freezing of hard spheres are presented using as input a very …

The density functional theory of freezing is extended to the crystallisation of multicomponent
systems into substitutional solid solutions. The formalism is applied to the case of binary …

Starting from an exact expression for the Helmholtz free-energy functional of an
inhomogeneous classical liquid, an approximate functional is presented which depends on …

A density functional-variational version of the Ramakrishnan-Yussouff theory of freezing is
used to reconsider the problem of the hard sphere transition. This calculation differs from …