Reentrant Disordering of Colloidal Molecular Crystals on 2D Periodic Substrates

Details Reentrant Disordering of Colloidal Molecular Crystals on 2D Periodic Substrates Reentrant Disordering of Colloidal Molecular Crystals on 2D Periodic Substrates

2004-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0404586v1

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 16, 7909 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

9 pages, 7 postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/16/45/013

We study colloidal ordering and disordering on two-dimensional periodic substrates where the number of colloids per substrate minima is two or three. The colloids form dimer or trimer states with orientational ordering, referred to as colloidal molecular crystals. At a fixed temperature such that, in the absence of a substrate, the colloids are in a triangular floating solid state, upon increasing the substrate strength we find a transition to an ordered colloidal molecular crystal state, followed by a transition to a disordered state where the colloids still form dimers or trimers but the orientational order is lost. These results are in agreement with recent experiments.

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