Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
1999-11-22
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
12 two-column pages, 16 figures. Revtex
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.62.5228
We investigate the first layer of helium adsorbed on graphite with path-integral Monte Carlo, examining the role of substrate corrugations on the phase diagram. When no corrugations are present, the equilibrium state of the system is a liquid phase, with solidification occurring only under compression but before layer promotion. We determine the solid-liquid coexistence region and compare our results to recent Green's function Monte Carlo calculations on the same system. When substrate corrugations are included, we find that the equilibrium phase is the $\sqrt 3 \times \sqrt3$ commensurate solid phase that is well known from experiment. The melting behavior, heat capacity, and single particle binding energy are determined and compared to experiment. We further find that for densities below the commensurate coverage, the low temperature phase of the system consists of solid clusters in coexistence with coalesced vacancies. We find no first layer liquid phase and so no superfluidity in this layer, in contrast to some rather recent suggestions.
Manousakis Efstratios
Pierce Marlon E.
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