Point defects in hard-sphere crystals
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2001
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Pronk, S.
Frenkel, D.
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Abstract
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 2.7(4) × 10-8. This is some 3 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.