Layering, freezing, and re-entrant melting of hard spheres in soft confinement

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Curk, Tine ^a,b   De Hoogh, Anouk ^c   Martinez Veracoechea, Francisco J ^b   Eiser, Erika ^d   Frenkel, Daan ^b   Dobnikar, Jure ^b,e   Leunissen, Mirjam E ^c  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; CONFINEMENT ENERGY; DIELECTROPHORETIC TRAPS; GRAND CANONICAL MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; HARD SPHERES; HARMONIC CONFINEMENT; HARMONIC POTENTIAL; LIQUID PHASE; ONE DIMENSION; ORDERED PHASIS; PARTICULATE SYSTEMS; SELF ASSEMBLED STRUCTURES; STRONG CONFINEMENT; TOTAL FREE ENERGY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 84857757198     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.021502     Document Type: Article

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