For a decade now the subject of the nature of the two-dimensional melting transition has
remained controversial. An elegant theory based on the unbinding of pairs of crystal defects …

This article reviews, from a very personal point of view, the origins and the early work on
transitions driven by topological defects such as vortices in the two dimensional planar rotor …

A comprehensive account of the phenomena that occur when simple gases interact with
surfaces, this text takes a fundamental perspective. Physical adsorption involves atomic or …

We have observed a two-stage melting transition in a two-dimensional (2D) colloidal
suspension of highly charged, submicron-sized spheres in water using optical microscopy …

We describe a general and efficient method, based on computer simulations and applicable
to a general class of fluids, that allows us to determine (i) bounds on the transition densities …

Monte Carlo simulations of two-dimensional fluids with a truncated Lennard-Jones
interaction in the NVT ensemble are analysed with a block density distribution technique, for …

Abstract We present detailed Monte Carlo results for the two-dimensional melting transition
of various systems up to N= 65 536 hard disks. The simulations are performed in the NVT …

In this paper, we present a cluster algorithm for the simulation of hard spheres and related
systems. In this algorithm, a copy of the configuration is rotated with respect to a randomly …

Large scale molecular dynamics simulations of two-dimensional melting have been carried
out using a recently revised Parrinello-Rahman scheme on massively parallel …

We consider a 2D Lennard-Jones fluid above the liquid-gas transition. By extending
methods developed for lattice models, we divide the simulation cell in subsystems or blocks …