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An exhaustive Padé approximant study of the Mayer virial series expansion is carried out for the classical hard-sphere system. As one increases the order of the different approximants a clear tendency is seen to reproduce both the random close packing divergence of the fluid branch as well as its instability (towards the crystalline phase) at the spinodal point.
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Aguilera-Navarro, V.C., Fortes, M., de Llano, M. et al. Hard-sphere fluid-to-solid transition and the virial expansion. J Stat Phys 32, 95–104 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01009422
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