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Bond-orientational order and Frank’s constant in two-dimensional colloidal hard spheres
- Abstract:
- Recently, the full phase behaviour of two-dimensional colloidal hard spheres was experimentally established, and found to involve a first order liquid to hexatic transition and a continuous hexatic to crystal transition [A. L. Thorneywork et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158001 (2017)]. Here, we expand upon this work by considering the behaviour of the bond-orientational correlation time and Frank’s constant in the region of these phase transitions. We also consider the excess entropy, as calculated from the radial distribution functions, for a wide range of area fractions covering the liquid, hexatic and crystal phases. In all cases, the behaviour of these quantities further corroborates the previously reported melting scenario of two-dimensional colloidal hard spheres.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1088/1361-648X/aaab31
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- IOP Publishing
- Journal:
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter More from this journal
- Volume:
- 30
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- 1-6
- Publication date:
- 2018-01-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-01-29
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1361-648X
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0953-8984
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pubs:821822
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pubs:821822
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821822
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- IOP Publishing Ltd
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd. This is the author accepted manuscript following peer review version of the article. The final version is available online from IOP Publishing at: 10.1088/1361-648X/aaab31
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