Multilayered crystals of macroions under slit-confinement
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-12-23 v2
Abstract
The crystalline ground state of macroions confined between two neutral parallel plates in the presence of their homogeneously spread counterions is calculated by lattice-sum minimization of candidate phases involving up to six layers. For increasing macroion density, a cascade of solid-solid transitions is found involving various multilayered crystals. The cascade includes triangular monolayer and buckled bilayer as well as rhombic, squared and triangular phase structures.
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@article{arxiv.0904.3196,
title = {Multilayered crystals of macroions under slit-confinement},
author = {Erdal Celal Oğuz and René Messina and Hartmut Löwen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.3196},
year = {2009}
}