Journal article
Dislocations and melting in two and three dimensions
Comments are presented on the recent theories of two-dimensional melting which envisage melting as proceeding via two second-order transitions comprising dislocation dipole dissociation followed by disclination dipole dissociation. It is suggested that if the configurational entropy is properly included, the model system may jump discontinuously from a volume below the dislocation transition to a volume above the disclination transition so that both transitions are virtual and are hidden in the first-order discontinuity.
A reinterpretation of the recent molecular-dynamics simulation of two-dimensional melting of Frenkel and McTague, reveals that such is the case for a Lennard-Jones system. There may be no fundamental difference between two-and three-dimensional melting. ©1980 The American Physical Society
Language: | English |
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Year: | 1980 |
Pages: | 453-455 |
ISSN: | 10953795 , 01631829 , 1550235x , 10980121 and 24699950 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.22.453 |