Freezing and melting equations for the $n$-6 Lennard-Jones systems

@article{Khrapak2016FreezingAM,
  title={Freezing and melting equations for the \$n\$-6 Lennard-Jones systems},
  author={Sergey A. Khrapak and Ning Ning},
  journal={AIP Advances},
  year={2016},
  volume={6},
  pages={055215}
}
We generalize previous approach of Khrapak and Morfill [J. Chem. Phys. 134, 094108 (2011)] to construct simple and sufficiently accurate freezing and melting equations for the conventional Lennard-Jones (LJ) system to n-6 LJ systems, using the accurate results for the triple points of these systems published by Sousa et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 136, 174502 (2012)]. 
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