Helicity in cylindrically confined Yukawa systems

Abstract

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Corrected Article: Simulation and observation of line-slip structures in columnar structures of soft spheres [Phys. Rev. E 96, 012610 (2017)]

“…These results may also be fruitfully compared with previous studies employing the Lennard-Jones potential, where both uniform structures and line-slip arrangements are observed [23]. On the other hand, in the case of very soft potentials, such as the Yukawa interaction, line slips have not been predicted to exist [31], nor are they observed in experiments [32]. Determining the robustness of the phase diagram presented in Fig.…”

Simulation and observation of line-slip structures in columnar structures of soft spheres

“…Applications include various helical biological microstructures, such as viruses [1] and bacteria [5]. In addition, there are a range of problems involving the self assembly (or packing) of spheres and particles in tubes [30][31][32][34][35][36]. The context of this work is further expanded by the recently demonstrated analogy between line-slip structures and dislocations in the crystalline phase on a cylinder [37].…”

Confined colloidal crystals in and out of equilibrium

“…It has been shown, that hard spheres confined to a hollow hard cylinder show complex ordering structures with helical order [46]. The ground state structures were generalized recently to Yukawa systems in a hard cylindrical pore [47]. As a function of screening strength and particle density, the equilibrium phase diagram was found to exhibit a cascade of stable crystals with both helical and non-helical structures.…”