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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 23: Complex Fluids and Soft Matter 1 (joint session DY/CPP)

CPP 23.7: Vortrag

Mittwoch, 7. September 2022, 11:15–11:30, H18

Phase behaviour in a mono-layer colloidal membrane — •Léa Beaules, Anja Kuhnhold, and Tanja Schilling — Institute of Physics, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany

Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson and Young (KTHNY) theory predicted that the melting of a purely 2D hard disk system would be defect-mediated and occur via two continuous transitions: from the solid to the intermediate hexatic phase and, from the hexatic to the fluid phase. Since then phase behaviour of this system as well as closely related systems have been extensively investigated and debated, showing that the hexatic-liquid transition is of first order for purely hard system [1]. Additionally, upon increasing interaction range or adding dispersity in the system the transition can become continuous or the hexatic phase can vanish [2].

However a large number of real systems can be more accurately approximated as a quasi-2D system that exhibits out of plane interactions, e.g. biological membranes; therefore understanding their role in the phase behaviour is important. Thus to extend our understanding of these systems, we use Monte-Carlo simulations to study an infinite mono-layer membrane of hard rod-like particles. We investigate how the orientational degree of freedom of the rods, and the range of their out of plane interactions affect the phase behaviour of the system.

[1] E. P. Bernard and W. Krauth, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, p. 155704 (2011).

[2] Y.-W. Li and M. P. Ciamarra, Phys. Rev. E 102, p. 062101 (2020).