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Symmetry-specific orientational order parameters for complex structures
العنوان: | Symmetry-specific orientational order parameters for complex structures |
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المؤلفون: | Logan, Jack A., Mushnoori, Srinivas, Dutt, Meenakshi, Tkachenko, Alexei V. |
سنة النشر: | 2021 |
المجموعة: | Condensed Matter |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter, Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics |
الوصف: | A comprehensive framework of characterizing complex self-assembled structures with a set of orientational order parameters is presented. It is especially relevant in the context of using anisotropic building blocks with various symmetries. Two classes of tensor order parameters are associated with polyhedral nematic, and bond orientational order, respectively. For the latter, a variation of classical bond order parameters is introduced that takes advantage of the symmetry of constituent particles, and/or expected crystalline phases. These Symmetrized Bond Order Parameters (SymBOPs) can be averaged over an entire system, or assigned locally to an individual bond. By combining that with bond percolation procedure, one is able to identify coherent domains within a self-assembled structure. As a demonstration of the proposed framework, we apply it to a simulated hybrid system that combines isotropic and patchy particles with octahedral symmetry. Not only does the methodology allow one to identify individual crystalline domains, but it also detects coherent clusters of a peculiar compact amorphous structure that is not space-filling and lacks any long-range order. Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures |
نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
DOI: | 10.1063/5.0076915 |
URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13862 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2110.13862 |
قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
DOI: | 10.1063/5.0076915 |
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