Anisotropic elasticity of experimental colloidal Wigner crystals
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Anisotropic elasticity of experimental colloidal Wigner crystals.
Colloidal particles interacting via a long-range repulsion can, in contrast to hard-sphere systems, exhibit crystalline ordering at low volume fraction. Here we experimentally investigate the structure and properties of such "colloidal Wigner crystals." We find a body-centered-cubic crystalline phase at volume fractions of ϕ≳15%, which exhibits large fluctuations of individual particles from th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.032310