Bond orientational order in liquids and amorphous solids

David R. Nelson

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1983, vol. 118, issue 1, 315-316

Abstract: Recent theoretical work1) on the Kosterlitz-Thouless2) model of dislocation-mediated melting in two dimensions suggests the existence of a new “hexatic” phase of matter, intermediate between a solid and a liquid. Hexatic liquids display persistent correlations in the “bonds” joining near neighbor atoms. Although these unusual materials have some properties in common with a liquid crystal, there need not be an anisotropy in the constituent particles. Although computer simulations have produced conflicting evidence for an equilibrium hexatic phase3), the discovery of a “stacked hexatic” phase in bulk smectic liquid crystals has been reported recently4).

Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(83)90197-8

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