Soft Spheres Make More Mesophases

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2006-09-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0609570v1

Europhys. Lett. 78 (2007) 46004

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 2 included figures

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/78/46004

We use both mean-field methods and numerical simulation to study the phase diagram of classical particles interacting with a hard-core and repulsive, soft shoulder. Despite the purely repulsive interaction, this system displays a remarkable array of aggregate phases arising from the competition between the hard-core and shoulder length scales. In the limit of large shoulder width to core size, we argue that this phase diagram has a number of universal features, and classify the set of repulsive shoulders that lead to aggregation at high density. Surprisingly, the phase sequence and aggregate size adjusts so as to keep almost constant inter-aggregate separation.

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