2010/01/15 by N. V. Gribova, Axel Arnold, Gribova, N. +7
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Block Copolymer Self-Assembly #FOS: Physical sciences #Material Dynamics and Properties #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Theoretical and Computational Physics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1001.2727
openalex publication_date 2010/01/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present a computer simulation study of a (6,12)-Lennard-Jones fluid confined to a slit pore, formed by two uniform planes. These interact via a (3,9)-Lennard-Jones potential with the fluid particles. When the fluid approaches the liquid-to-solid transition we first observe layering parallel to the walls. In order to investigate the nature of the freezing transition, we performed a detailed analysis of the bond-orientational order parameter in the layers. Changing the distance between the slit wall, we studied howthe behaviour changes from a quasi-2d crystallization without hysteresis and an intermediate hexatic phase to a standard 3d nucleation.