Bond-orientational ordering and shear rigidity in modulated colloidal liquids

Das, Chinmay and Sood, AK and Krishnamurthy, HR (1999) Bond-orientational ordering and shear rigidity in modulated colloidal liquids. In: Physica A, 270 (1-2). pp. 237-244.

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Abstract

From Landau-Alexander-McTague theory and Monte Carlo simulation results we show that the modulated liquid obtained by subjecting a colloidal system to a periodic laser modulation has long range bond-orientational order and non-zero shear rigidity. From infinite field simulation results we show that in the modulated liquid phase, the translational order parameter correlation function decays to zero exponentially while the correlation function for the bond-orientational order saturates to a finite value at large distances.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Physica A
Publisher:	Elsevier
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier.
Keywords:	Laser induced freezing;Bond-orientational order;Modulated liquid
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	25 May 2007
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:36
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/10223

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