Freezing Transition of Monolayer Xenon on Graphite
- 11 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 48 (2) , 104-108
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.48.104
Abstract
This paper reports a high-resolution synchrotron x-ray scattering study of the freezing transition as a function of temperature and chemical potential of the two-dimensional continuous-symmetry system monolayer xenon on graphite. It is found that for a coverage of 1.1 monolayers the transition is continuous to within the substrate-determined resolution with fluid correlation lengths exceeding 100 atomic spacings. Comparison is made with current theories of solidification in two dimensions.Keywords
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