Observing one-step melting pathway in two-dimensional hard circular particle system

Summary: The nature of two-dimensional melting remains a matter of debate. Based on Langevin dynamics simulation, we present a surprising observation that the melting pathway of hard circular-particles/disks is relevant to the dynamical properties of particles. Using hard circular-particles/disks, w...

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मुख्य लेखकों: Yanwen Zhu, Shenhua Jiang, Jieli Wang, Xin Song, Xing Huang, Bin Zheng, Linli He, Shigeyuki Komura, Zhanglin Hou
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भाषा:अंग्रेज़ी
प्रकाशित: Elsevier 2025-08-01
श्रृंखला:iScience
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ऑनलाइन पहुंच:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225013689
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सारांश:Summary: The nature of two-dimensional melting remains a matter of debate. Based on Langevin dynamics simulation, we present a surprising observation that the melting pathway of hard circular-particles/disks is relevant to the dynamical properties of particles. Using hard circular-particles/disks, where particle friction is proportional to particle size, results show the melting pathway of small size particles obeys two-step scenario, consistent with previous reports on melting behavior of hard disks. Conversely, in large size particle systems, we observe a one-step melting pathway. Further investigation reveals that the emergent one-step melting pathway is non-equilibrium phase transition that relates to cooperative relaxation of cage dynamics. This originates from the particularly stable/stiff configuration in large size particle system, which is a metastable state arrested by changed dynamics of particles, thus inducing a non-equilibrium melting pathway that distinguishes from the equilibrium melting behavior. Our findings shed light on the debate on melting behavior of hard disks.
आईएसएसएन:2589-0042