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Binary crystals in two-dimensional two-component Yukawa mixtures

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-13 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

The zero-temperature phase diagram of binary mixtures of particles interacting via a screened Coulomb pair potential is calculated as a function of composition and charge ratio. The potential energy obtained by a Lekner summation is minimized among a variety of candidate two-dimensional crystals. A wealth of different stable crystal structures is identified including A,B,AB2,A2B,AB4A,B,AB_2, A_2B, AB_4 structures [AA (B)(B) particles correspond to large (small) charge.] Their elementary cells consist of triangular, square or rhombic lattices of the AA particles with a basis comprising various structures of AA and BB particles. For small charge asymmetry there are no intermediate crystals besides the pure AA and BB triangular crystals.

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@article{arxiv.0801.1453,
  title  = {Binary crystals in two-dimensional two-component Yukawa mixtures},
  author = {Lahcen Assoud and Rene Messina and Hartmut Loewen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.1453},
  year   = {2009}
}

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