Two-dimensional melting under quenched disorder

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Deutschländer, Sven ^a   Horn, Tobias ^b   Löwen, Hartmut ^b   Maret, Georg ^a   Keim, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; FIRST ORDER TRANSITIONS; LOWER TEMPERATURES; PARALLEL DIPOLES; QUENCHED DISORDER; SUPERPARAMAGNETICS; TRANSITION SHIFTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MELTING;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84884264696     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.098301     Document Type: Article

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