Hexatic phase in the two-dimensional Gaussian-core model

Details Hexatic phase in the two-dimensional Gaussian-core model Hexatic phase in the two-dimensional Gaussian-core model

2011-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/1107.0828v1

Physical Review Letters 106, 235701 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.235701

We present a Monte Carlo simulation study of the phase behavior of two-dimensional classical particles repelling each other through an isotropic Gaussian potential. As in the analogous three-dimensional case, a reentrant-melting transition occurs upon compression for not too high temperatures, along with a spectrum of water-like anomalies in the fluid phase. However, in two dimensions melting is a continuous two-stage transition, with an intermediate hexatic phase which becomes increasingly more definite as pressure grows. All available evidence supports the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young scenario for this melting transition. We expect that such a phenomenology can be checked in confined monolayers of charge-stabilized colloids with a softened core.

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