Dimensionality and design of isotropic interactions that stabilize honeycomb, square, simple cubic, and diamond lattices

A Jain, JR Errington, TM Truskett - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
We use inverse methods of statistical mechanics and computer simulations to investigate
whether an isotropic interaction designed to stabilize a given two-dimensional lattice will …

Stability of quasicrystals composed of soft isotropic particles

K Barkan, H Diamant, R Lifshitz - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2011 - APS
Quasicrystals whose building blocks are of mesoscopic rather than atomic scale have
recently been discovered in several soft-matter systems. Contrary to metallurgic …

Unusual phase behavior of one-component systems with two-scale isotropic interactions

SV Buldyrev, G Malescio, CA Angell… - Journal of Physics …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the phase behavior of systems of particles interacting through pair potentials with a
hard core plus a soft repulsive component. We consider several different forms of soft …

Inverse design of simple pairwise interactions with low-coordinated 3D lattice ground states

A Jain, JR Errington, TM Truskett - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We demonstrate that inverse statistical mechanical optimization can be used to discover
simple (eg, short-range, isotropic, and convex-repulsive) pairwise interparticle potentials …

Breakdown of excess entropy scaling for systems with thermodynamic anomalies

YD Fomin, VN Ryzhov, NV Gribova - … Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2010 - APS
This paper presents a simulation study of the applicability of the Rosenfeld entropy scaling
to the systems which cannot be approximated by the effective hard spheres. Three systems …

Inverse design of colloidal crystals via optimized patchy interactions

D Chen, G Zhang, S Torquato - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Inverse statistical mechanics is a powerful optimization methodology that has been widely
applied to design optimal isotropic pair interactions that robustly yield a broad spectrum of …

[HTML][HTML] Communication: Designed diamond ground state via optimized isotropic monotonic pair potentials

É Marcotte, FH Stillinger, S Torquato - The Journal of Chemical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We apply inverse statistical-mechanical methods to find a simple family of optimized
isotropic, monotonic pair potentials (that may be experimentally realizable) whose classical …

Two-dimensional packing of soft particles and the soft generalized Thomson problem

WL Miller, A Cacciuto - Soft Matter, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
We perform numerical simulations of a model of purely repulsive soft colloidal particles
interacting via a generalized elastic potential and constrained to a two-dimensional plane …

Effect of a potential softness on the solid-liquid transition in a two-dimensional core-softened potential system

DE Dudalov, EN Tsiok, YD Fomin… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
In the present paper, using a molecular dynamics simulation, we study a nature of melting of
a two-dimensional (2D) system of classical particles interacting through a purely repulsive …

Self-assembly of the decagonal quasicrystalline order in simple three-dimensional systems

R Ryltsev, B Klumov, N Chtchelkatchev - Soft Matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Using molecular dynamics simulations we show that a one-component system can be driven
to a three-dimensional decagonal (10-fold) quasicrystalline state just by purely repulsive …