Melting of Colloidal Molecular Crystals on Triangular Lattices

Details Melting of Colloidal Molecular Crystals on Triangular Lattices Melting of Colloidal Molecular Crystals on Triangular Lattices

2005-02-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0502586v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 088302 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

10 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.088302

The phase behavior of a two-dimensional colloidal system subject to a commensurate triangular potential is investigated. We consider the integer number of colloids in each potential minimum as rigid composite objects with effective discrete degrees of freedom. It is shown that there is a rich variety of phases including ``herring bone'' and ``Japanese 6 in 1'' phases. The ensuing phase diagram and phase transitions are analyzed analytically within variational mean-field theory and supplemented by Monte Carlo simulations. Consequences for experiments are discussed.

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