Two-step melting in two dimensions: First-order liquid-hexatic transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Bernard, Etienne P ^a   Krauth, Werner ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; FIRST ORDER; HARD-DISK MODEL; HEXATIC PHASE; LIQUID PHASE; MELTING MECHANISM; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL DIMENSION; TWO-DIMENSION;

LIQUIDS; PHASE INTERFACES;

MELTING;

EID: 80053612567     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.155704     Document Type: Article

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