Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 74, Number 6, June 2006
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Page(s) | 1046 - 1052 | |
Section | Condensed matter: structural, mechanical and thermal properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10044-6 | |
Published online | 12 May 2006 |
Induced order and re-entrant melting in classical two-dimensional binary clusters
1
Departement Fysica, Universiteit Antwerpen Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
2
Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Institutskaya 4/1, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
Received:
12
January
2006
Accepted:
13
April
2006
A binary system of classical charged particles interacting through a dipole repulsive potential and confined in a two-dimensional hard-wall trap is studied by Brownian dynamics simulations. We found that the presence of small particles stabilizes the angular order of the system as a consequence of radial fluctuations of the small particles. There is an optimum in the increased rigidity of the cluster as function of the number of small particles. The small (i.e. defect) particles melt at a lower temperature compared to the big particles and exhibit a re-entrant behavior in its radial order that is induced by the intershell rotation of the big particles.
PACS: 64.60.Cn – Order-disorder transformations; statistical mechanics of model systems / 83.10.Mj – Molecular dynamics, Brownian dynamics / 83.10.Rs – Computer simulation of molecular and particle dynamics
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