Studies of the melting of a 2D solid

S. K. Sinha; P. Vora; P. Dutta; L. Passell

doi:10.1088/0022-3719/15/10/003

Studies of the melting of a 2D solid

S. K. Sinha^*, P. Vora, P. Dutta, L. Passell

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The authors have made a detailed numerical analysis of neutron diffraction lineshapes across the constant-coverage melting transition of incommensurate monolayers of methane on graphite. They find that in the liquid phase the liquid lineshape is well fitted with a lorentzian structure factor. While the exact nature of the transition very close to T_m cannot be commented upon, the 'freezing' of liquid appears to be initially continuous, with an increase in correlation length to hundreds of Angstroms before the appearance of a solid phase.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	003
Pages (from-to)	L275-L281
Journal	Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics
Volume	15
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3719/15/10/003
State	Published - 1982

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