Chiral surfaces self-assembling in one-component systems with isotropic interactions

Details Chiral surfaces self-assembling in one-component systems with isotropic interactions Chiral surfaces self-assembling in one-component systems with isotropic interactions

2012-01-11

arxiv.org/abs/1201.2271v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 4 figures

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We show that chiral symmetry can be broken spontaneously in one-component systems with isotropic interactions, i.e. many-particle systems having maximal a priori symmetry. This is achieved by designing isotropic potentials that lead to self-assembly of chiral surfaces. We demonstrate the principle on a simple chiral lattice and on a more complex lattice with chiral super-cells. In addition we show that the complex lattice has interesting melting behavior with multiple morphologically distinct phases that we argue can be qualitatively predicted from the design of the interaction.

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