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 structures [ particles correspond to large (small) charge.] Their elementary cells consist of triangular, square or rhombic lattices of the particles with a basis comprising various structures of and particles. For small charge asymmetry there are no intermediate crystals besides the pure and 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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