Novel self-assembled morphologies from isotropic interactions
Soft Condensed Matter
2011-08-22 v1 Materials Science
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We present results from particle simulations with isotropic medium range interactions in two dimensions. At low temperature novel types of aggregated structures appear. We show that these structures can be explained by spontaneous symmetry breaking in analytic solutions to an adaptation of the spherical spin model. We predict the critical particle number where the symmetry breaking occurs and show that the resulting phase diagram agrees well with results from particle simulations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1104.3709,
title = {Novel self-assembled morphologies from isotropic interactions},
author = {Erik Edlund and Oskar Lindgren and Martin Nilsson Jacobi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.3709},
year = {2011}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures