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Ryo Muragishi1, Masahide Sato2
1Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, 920-1192 Kanazawa, Japan.
Abstract:
When particles are constructed in thin systems between two parallel flat walls, structures that are not observed in bulk systems are created and the created structures change, depending on the width between the walls. In this study, the structures formed by particles constructed in thin systems were investigated through performing isothermal-isobaric Monte Carlo simulations, where the interaction between the particles is given by the hard-core square shoulder potential. By controlling the width of the shoulder-like repulsive interaction and the system width, several novel structures such as the connection of rhombuses and the square lattice of the (100) face of the body-centered cubic lattice were created.
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