Elastic fluctuations as observed in a confocal slice
Statistical Mechanics
2012-07-19 v2 Soft Condensed Matter
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Abstract
Recent confocal experiments on colloidal solids motivate a fuller study of the projection of three-dimensional fluctuations onto a two-dimensional confocal slice. We show that the effective theory of a projected crystal displays several exceptional features, such as non-standard exponents in the dispersion relations. We provide analytic expressions for the effective two-dimensional elastic properties which allow one to work back from sliced experimental observations to three-dimensional elastic constants.
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@article{arxiv.1103.2937,
title = {Elastic fluctuations as observed in a confocal slice},
author = {Claire A. Lemarchand and A. C. Maggs and Michael Schindler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.2937},
year = {2012}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures