Abstract
Nuclear physics experiments being constructed will create narrow beams of particles repelling each other with Coulomb forces but effectively attracted to a central axis, and cooled to such temperatures that they are expected to crystallize. A numerical search for ground states finds that particles lie within narrow shells, and within each shell on paths that twist about the central axis like lines around a barber pole. The system possesses an infinite set of ordered local-energy minima, and is probably a glass.
- Received 10 May 1989
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.40.4824
©1989 American Physical Society
