Sedimentation profiles of systems with reentrant melting behavior

Details Sedimentation profiles of systems with reentrant melting behavior Sedimentation profiles of systems with reentrant melting behavior

2001-01-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0101407v1

Physical Review E 64, 011405 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

10 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.64.011405

We examine sedimentation density profiles of star polymer solutions as an example of colloidal systems in sedimentation equilibrium which exhibit reentrant melting in their bulk phase diagram. Phase transitions between a fluid and a fluid with an intercalated solid are observed below a critical gravitational strength $\alpha^{*}$. Characteristics of the two fluid-solid interfaces in the density profiles occurring in Monte Carlo simulations for $\alpha < \alpha^{*}$ are in agreement with scaling laws put forth in the framework of a phenomenological theory. Furthermore we detect density oscillations at the fluid-gas interface at high altitudes for high gravitational fields, which are verified with density functional theory and should be observable in surface scattering experiments.

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