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Anisotropic elasticity in confocal studies of colloidal crystals
1Laboratoire PCT, UMR Gulliver CNRS-ESPCI 7083, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France. michael.schindler@espci.fr
The European Physical Journal. E, Soft Matter
|November 2, 2011
Abstract:
We consider the theory of fluctuations of a colloidal solid observed in a confocal slice. For a cubic crystal we study the evolution of the projected elastic properties as a function of the anisotropy of the crystal using numerical methods based on the fast Fourier transform. In certain situations of high symmetry we find exact analytic results for the projected fluctuations.
