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EPL
Volume 120, Number 3, November 2017
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| Article Number | 36001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/120/36001 | |
| Published online | 30 January 2018 | |
Columnar aggregation of dipolar chains
Université de Lorraine, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Théoriques, UMR CNRS 7019 - 1 Boulevard Arago, 57070 Metz, France
(a) rene.messina@univ-lorraine.fr
Received: 11 December 2017
Accepted: 8 January 2018
We investigate the columnar aggregation of dipolar chains theoretically. At very small number of constitutive chains 
, ribbons are found to be stable. For a larger number of chains 
, chain bundles in zipper configuration with narrow sections emerge. The underlying lattice is always a body-centered tetragonal lattice which corresponds to the bulk ground-state limit. Remarkable low-energy ground states are obtained when the section of the chain bundle corresponds to a square or a rectangle with aspect ratio close to the former (i.e., unity). Our findings should rationalize recent experimental observations of the columnar assembly of dipolar chains.
PACS: 61.50.Lt – Crystal binding; cohesive energy / 64.75.Yz – Self-assembly / 61.46.Km – Structure of nanowires and nanorods (long, free or loosely attached, quantum wires and quantum rods, but not gate-isolated embedded quantum wires)
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