- The
hexatic phase is a
state of
matter that is
between the
solid and the
isotropic liquid phases in two
dimensional systems of particles. It is characterized...
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resulting hexatic phase is not yet an
isotropic fluid.
Starting from a
hexagonal crystal (which is the
densest packed structure in 2D), the
hexatic phase...
- Nelson,
worked out a
theory of two-dimensional melting,
predicting the
hexatic phase before it was
experimentally observed by
Pindak et al. In the 1980s...
- liquid.
Wigner crystal: a
crystalline phase of low-density electrons.
Hexatic state, a
state of
matter that is
between the
solid and the
isotropic liquid...
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Ising model Potts model Topological defect Quantum vortex Superfluid film
Hexatic phase Kosterlitz, J. M.; Thouless, D. J. (November 1972). "Ordering, metastability...
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coworkers discovered the line
hexatic phase in the
phase diagram of the
concentrated long
fragment DNA
solutions [1]. The line
hexatic mesophase appears to be...
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fluid phase with
typically a six-folded
director field. This so-called
hexatic phase still has an
orientational stiffness. The
isotropic fluid phase appears...
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ranges of
concentration and
molecular weight, DNA will form an
achiral line
hexatic phase. An
interesting recent observation is of the
formation of chiral...
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contributions to
random ferromagnetism,
macroscopic quantum tunneling, and
hexatic order in high Tc materials". He is
mostly known for his work on quantum...
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responsible for a
theory of two-dimensional
melting that
predicted a
fourth hexatic phase of matter,
interposed between the
usual solid and
liquid phases....
