Spontaneous Chirality in Simple Systems
| Autor: | Hiroko Okuyama, Mark Gross, Galen T. Pickett |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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| Zdroj: | Physical Review Letters. 85:3652-3655 |
| ISSN: | 1079-7114 0031-9007 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/physrevlett.85.3652 |
| Popis: | Two simple examples of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking are presented. The first is close-packed cylindrically confined spheres. As the cylinder diameter is varied, one obtains a variety of chiral phases. The second example involves unconfined dipolar particles with an isotropic attraction, which also exhibits chiral ground states. We speculate that a dilute magnetorheological fluid film, with the addition of smaller particles to provide an attractive entropic interaction, will exhibit a chiral columnar ground state. |
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