Novel Low-Temperature Behavior in Classical Many-Particle Systems

Details Novel Low-Temperature Behavior in Classical Many-Particle Systems Novel Low-Temperature Behavior in Classical Many-Particle Systems

2009-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/0907.0447v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

10 pages, 4 figures. This paper has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

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We show that classical many-particle systems interacting with certain soft pair interactions in two dimensions exhibit novel low-temperature behaviors. Ground states span from disordered to crystalline. At some densities, a large fraction of normal-mode frequencies vanish. Lattice ground-state configurations have more vanishing frequencies than disordered ground states at the same density and exhibit vanishing shear moduli. For the melting transition from a crystal, the thermal expansion coefficient is negative. These unusual results are attributed to the topography of the energy landscape.

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