Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2008-04-21
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
23 pages, 18 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/20/40/404217
We employ density functional theory to study in detail the crystallization of super-paramagnetic particles in two dimensions under the influence of an external magnetic field that lies perpendicular to the confining plane. The field induces non-fluctuating magnetic dipoles on the particles, resulting into an interparticle interaction that scales as the inverse cube of the distance separating them. In line with previous findings for long-range interactions in three spatial dimensions, we find that explicit inclusion of liquid-state structural information on the {\it triplet} correlations is crucial to yield theoretical predictions that agree quantitatively with experiment. A non-perturbative treatment is superior to the oft-employed functional Taylor expansions, truncated at second or third order. We go beyond the usual Gaussian parametrization of the density site-orbitals by performing free minimizations with respect to both the shape and the normalization of the profiles, allowing for finite defect concentrations.
Likos Christos N.
Löwen Hartmut
Teeffelen Sven van
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