Comment on "Freezing by heating in a driven mesoscopic system"
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1 Materials Science
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We point out that the phenomenon ``heating by freezing'' discovered in nonequilibrium simulations by Helbing, et al. (PRL 84, 1240 (2000)) extends to equilibrium systems as well. We argue that such reentrant fluctuation-driven freezing can, for example, be realized in two-dimensional colloidal systems subjected to a one-dimensional periodic potential.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0212315,
title = {Comment on "Freezing by heating in a driven mesoscopic system"},
author = {Leo Radzihovsky and Noel A. Clark},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0212315},
year = {2009}
}
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