Multiple occupancy crystals formed by purely repulsive soft particles
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Journal Article
Recently, particular interest has been placed in the study of a strikingly counter-intuitive phenomenon: the clustering of purely repulsive soft particles. This contribution serves the purpose of both reviewing our current understanding of the multiple occupancy crystals and presenting details of recently developed tailor-cut approaches to the problem. We first indicate, by use of analytically tractable examples, how such a phenomenon can arise at all. We then show that the thermodynamic formalism has to be adapted when studying such systems and present a novel computer simulation technique apt to do so. Finally, we discuss the intriguing mechanical and structural responses of such systems upon increasing the density. © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Mladek, BM; Charbonneau, P; Likos, CN; Frenkel, D; Kahl, G
Published Date
- December 10, 2008
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 20 / 49
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1361-648X
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0953-8984
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1088/0953-8984/20/49/494245
Citation Source
- Scopus