Phase behaviour of hard spheres confined between parallel hard plates: manipulation of colloidal crystal structures by confinement

A Fortini, M Dijkstra - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the phase behaviour of hard spheres confined between two parallel hard plates
using extensive computer simulations. We determine the full equilibrium phase diagram for …

Liquid-crystal patterns of rectangular particles in a square nanocavity

M González-Pinto, Y Martínez-Ratón, E Velasco - Physical Review E …, 2013 - APS
Using density-functional theory in the restricted-orientation approximation, we analyze the
liquid-crystal patterns and phase behavior of a fluid of hard rectangular particles confined in …

Capillary ordering and layering transitions in two-dimensional hard-rod fluids

Y Martínez-Ratón - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2007 - APS
We calculate the surface phase diagram of a two-dimensional hard-rod fluid confined
between two hard lines. In the first stage we study a semi-infinite system consisting of an …

Ordering of two-dimensional crystals confined in strips of finite width

A Ricci, P Nielaba, S Sengupta, K Binder - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2007 - APS
Monte Carlo simulations are used to study the effect of confinement on a crystal of point
particles interacting with an inverse power law potential∝ r− 12 in d= 2 dimensions. This …

Transitions between imperfectly ordered crystalline structures: A phase switch Monte Carlo study

D Wilms, NB Wilding, K Binder - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and …, 2012 - APS
A model for two-dimensional colloids confined laterally by “structured boundaries”(ie, ones
that impose a periodicity along the slit) is studied by Monte Carlo simulations. When the …

Avalanches, plasticity, and ordering in colloidal crystals under compression

D McDermott, CJO Reichhardt, C Reichhardt - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
Using numerical simulations we examine colloids with a long-range Coulomb interaction
confined in a two-dimensional trough potential undergoing dynamical compression. As the …

Lack of long-range order in confined two-dimensional model colloidal crystals

A Ricci, P Nielaba, S Sengupta, K Binder - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2006 - APS
We investigate the nature of the ordered phase for a model of colloidal particles confined
within a quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) strip between two parallel boundaries, or walls …

Heat conduction through a trapped solid: the effect of structural changes on the thermal conductance

D Chaudhuri, A Chaudhuri… - Journal of Physics …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the conduction of heat across a narrow solid strip trapped by an external potential
and in contact with its own liquid. Structural changes, consisting of addition and deletion of …

Anomalous structural and mechanical properties of solids confined in quasi-one-dimensional strips

D Chaudhuri, S Sengupta - The journal of chemical physics, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
We show using computer simulations and mean field theory that a system of particles in two
dimensions, when laterally confined by a pair of parallel hard walls within a quasi-one …

Stochastic ratcheting of two-dimensional colloids: Directed current and dynamical transitions

D Chakraborty, D Chaudhuri - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
We present results of molecular dynamics simulations for two-dimensional repulsively
interacting colloids driven by a one-dimensional asymmetric and commensurate ratchet …