Phase diagram and critical properties of Yukawa bilayers

Igor Travěnec and Ladislav Šamaj
Phys. Rev. E 92, 022306 – Published 17 August 2015

Abstract

We study the ground-state Wigner bilayers of pointlike particles with Yukawa pairwise interactions, confined to the surface of two parallel hard walls at dimensionless distance η. The model involves as limiting cases the unscreened Coulomb potential and hard spheres. The phase diagram of Yukawa particles, studied numerically by Messina and Löwen [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 146101 (2003)], exhibits five different staggered phases as η varies from 0 to intermediate values. We present a lattice summation method using the generalized Misra functions which permits us to calculate the energy per particle of the phases with a precision much higher than usual in computer simulations. This allows us to address some tiny details of the phase diagram. Going from the hexagonal phase I to phase II is shown to occur at η=0. All second-order phase transitions are proved to be of mean-field type. We also derive the asymptotic shape of critical lines close to the Coulomb and hard-spheres limits. In and close to the hard-spheres limit, the dependence of the internal parameters of the present phases on η is determined exactly.

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  • Received 5 March 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.022306

©2015 American Physical Society

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Igor Travěnec and Ladislav Šamaj

  • Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84511 Bratislava, Slovakia

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Vol. 92, Iss. 2 — August 2015

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