Novel Self-Assembled Morphologies from Isotropic Interactions
Journal article, 2011
We present results from particle simulations with isotropic medium range interactions in two dimensions. At low temperature novel types of aggregated structures appear. We show that these structures can be explained by spontaneous symmetry breaking in analytic solutions to an adaptation of the spherical spin model. We predict the critical particle number where the symmetry breaking occurs and show that the resulting phase diagram agrees well with results from particle simulations.
Author
Erik Edlund
Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Physical Resource Theory
SuMo Biomaterials
Oskar Lindgren
SuMo Biomaterials
Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Physical Resource Theory
Martin Nilsson Jacobi
Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Physical Resource Theory
Physical Review Letters
0031-9007 (ISSN) 1079-7114 (eISSN)
Vol. 107 8 085501-Roots
Basic sciences
Subject Categories
Condensed Matter Physics
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.085501