| Issue |
EPL
Volume 80, Number 4, November 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 48001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/80/48001 | |
| Published online | 10 October 2007 | |
Stable crystalline lattices in two-dimensional binary mixtures of dipolar particles
Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf - Universitätsstrasse 1, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Received:
15
June
2007
Accepted:
13
September
2007
The phase diagram of binary mixtures of particles interacting via a pair potential of parallel dipoles is computed
at zero temperature as a function of composition and the ratio of their magnetic susceptibilities. Using lattice sums,
a rich variety of different stable crystalline structures is identified including 
structures. (A 
particles correspond to large (small) dipolar moments.)
Their elementary cells consist of triangular, square, rectangular or rhombic
lattices of the A particles with a basis comprising
various structures of A and B
particles. For small (dipolar) asymmetry there are intermediate AB2
and 
crystals besides the pure A and B triangular crystals.
These structures are detectable in experiments on granular and colloidal matter.
PACS: 82.70.Dd – Colloids / 61.50.Ah – Theory of crystal structure, crystal symmetry; calculations and modeling / 61.66.Dk – Alloys
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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