Point Defect Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals

Details Point Defect Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals Point Defect Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals

2006-09-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0609676v2

Phys. Rev. E 75, 011403 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

8 pages, 9 postscript figures. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.75.011403

We study the topological configurations and dynamics of individual point defect vacancies and interstitials in a two-dimensional colloidal crystal. Our Brownian dynamics simulations show that the diffusion mechanism for vacancy defects occurs in two phases. The defect can glide along the crystal lattice directions, and it can rotate during an excited topological transition configuration to assume a different direction for the next period of gliding. The results for the vacancy defects are in good agreement with recent experiments. For the interstitial point defects, which were not studied in the experiments, we find several of the same modes of motion as in the vacancy defect case along with two additional diffusion pathways. The interstitial defects are more mobile than the vacancy defects due to the more two-dimensional nature of the diffusion of the interstitial defects.

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