Destabilisation of the hexatic phase in systems of hard disks by quenched disorder due to pinning on a lattice

Soft Matter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 2852-2856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weikai Qi ◽  
Marjolein Dijkstra

We investigate the effect of quenched disorder on the melting mechanism of two-dimensional hard disks using large-scale event-driven molecular dynamics simulations.

Soft Matter ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (16) ◽  
pp. 3115-3126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Borówko ◽  
Wojciech Rżysko ◽  
Stefan Sokołowski ◽  
Tomasz Staszewski

We report the results of large scale molecular dynamics simulations conducted for sparsely grafted disks in two-dimensional systems.


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pp. 041509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Edström ◽  
Davide G. Sangiovanni ◽  
Lars Hultman ◽  
Ivan Petrov ◽  
J. E. Greene ◽  
...  

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Bharti bharti ◽  
Debabrata Deb

We use molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the ordering phenomena in two-dimensional (2D) liquid crystals over the one-dimensional periodic substrate (1DPS). We have used Gay-Berne (GB) potential to model the...


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2017 ◽  
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pp. 5919-5924 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheyong Fan ◽  
Petri Hirvonen ◽  
Luiz Felipe C. Pereira ◽  
Mikko M. Ervasti ◽  
Ken R. Elder ◽  
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