Phase transitions in anisotropically confined ionic crystals
- 8 February 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 70 (6) , 818-821
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.70.818
Abstract
Crystalline, confined ionic systems exhibit well defined phase transitions as a function of the anisotropy of the confining potential. The transitions from one to two dimensions, from two to three, and back from three to two have been investigated as a function of this anisotropy with molecular dynamics simulations. The anisotropy at which such transitions occur seems to be proportional to a power of the number of confined ions.Keywords
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