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We numerically investigate two-dimensional systems of hard rectangles at constant pressure through extensive hard-particle Monte Carlo simulations. We determine the complete phase diagram as a function of packing fraction and aspect ratio,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-15 Denis Dertli , Thomas Speck

We present a detailed numerical simulation study of a two dimensional system of particles interacting via the Weeks-Chandler-Anderson potential, the repulsive part of the Lennard-Jones potential. With reduction of density, the system shows…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-31 Shubhendu Shekhar Khali , Dipanjan Chakraborty , Debasish Chaudhuri

Melting and freezing transitions in two dimensional systems are known to show highly unusual characteristics. Most of the earlier studies considered atomic systems; the melting behavior in two dimensional molecular solids is still largely…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-02-04 Rakesh S. Singh , Mantu Santra , Biman Bagchi

In contrast to three-dimensional (3D) crystals that melt via a first-order transition, two-dimensional (2D) crystals can exhibit various melting scenarios under different temperatures, pressures, and particle interactions, particularly when…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-16 Peng Hua , Yilong Han

Two-dimensional systems may admit a hexatic phase and hexatic-liquid transitions of different natures. The determination of their phase diagrams proved challenging, and indeed those of hard-disks, hard regular polygons, and inverse…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-29 Yan-Wei Li , Massimo Pica Ciamarra

We perform extensive simulations of $10^4$ Lennard-Jones particles to study the effect of particle size dispersity on the thermodynamic stability of two-dimensional solids. We find a novel phase diagram in the dispersity-density parameter…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Reza Sadr-Lahijany , Purusattam Ray , H. Eugene Stanley

The determination of phase behavior and, in particular, the nature of phase transitions in two-dimensional systems is often clouded by finite size effects and by access to the appropriate thermodynamic regime. We address these issues using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-02 Shaghayegh Darjani , Joel Koplik , Sanjoy Banerjee , Vincent Pauchard

Melting in 2D is described by the celebrated Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young (KTHNY) theory. The unbinding of two different types of topological defects destroys translational and orientational order at different temperatures. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-12 Robert Löffler , Lukas Siedentop , Peter Keim

We study the thermodynamic and dynamic phase transitions in two-dimensional polydisperse hard disks using Monte Carlo methods. A conventional local Monte Carlo algorithm allows us to observe a dynamic liquid-glass transition at a density,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ludger Santen , Werner Krauth

We investigate the two-dimensional melting of deformable polymeric particles with multi-body interactions described by the Voronoi model. We report machine learning evidence for the existence of the intermediate hexatic phase in this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-11 Wei-chen Guo , Bao-quan Ai , Liang He

Recent advances in cold atom experimentation suggest that studies of quantum two-dimensional melting of dipolar molecules, with dipoles aligned perpendicular to ordering plane, may be on the horizon. An intriguing aspect of this problem is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-04-02 Georg M. Bruun , David R. Nelson

There are strong evidences that the melting in two dimensions depends crucially on the form and range of the interaction potentials between particles. We study with Monte Carlo simulations the phase diagram and the melting of a monolayer of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-09 Martial Mazars

We establish the complete phase diagram of self-propelled hard disks in two spatial dimensions from the analysis of the equation of state and the statistics of local order parameters. The equilibrium melting scenario is maintained at small…

We consider the phase behavior of two-dimensional ($2D$)system of particles with an isotropic core-softened potential introduced in our previous publications. As one can expect from the qualitative consideration for the three dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 D. E. Dudalov , Yu. D. Fomin , E. N. Tsiok , V. N. Ryzhov

The supersolid phase of soft-core bosons in two dimensions is investigated using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock and quantum Monte Carlo methods. An approximate phase diagram at finite temperatures is initially constructed using the…

We show that two-dimensional systems of deformable particles undergo a continuous liquid-hexatic transition upon compression or cooling, but no hexatic-solid transition-even at zero temperature and high density. Numerical simulations reveal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-20 Jatin Kumar , Wu Zeng , Anshuman Pasupalak , Massimo Pica Ciamarra

Large-scale computer simulations involving more than a million particles have been performed to study the melting transition in a two-dimensional hard disk fluid. The van der Waals loop previously observed in the pressure-density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. H. Mak

A spacetime crystal is a phase of matter that spontaneously develops periodic order in both space and time. Spacetime crystals have been experimentally observed in microscopic quantum many-body systems and, very recently, in a mesoscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-11 Guoqing Liu , Jimin Bai , Matteo Baggioli , Jie Zhang

The melting transition of a system of hard cubes is studied numerically both in the case of freely rotating cubes and when there is a fixed orientation of the particles (parallel cubes). It is shown that freelly rotating cubes melt through…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. A. Jagla

We study the influence of quenched disorder on the two-dimensional melting behavior by using both video-microscopy of superparamagnetic colloidal particles and computer simulations of repulsive parallel dipoles. Quenched disorder is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-16 Sven Deutschländer , Tobias Kruppa , Hartmut Löwen , Georg Maret , Peter Keim