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dc.contributor.author | Chakrabarti, J. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Sinha, Supurna | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-08-03T10:19:44Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2007-08-03T10:19:44Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1997 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal de Physique II, 1997, Vol.7, p729-741 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1155-4312 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1286-4870 (Online) | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/3306 | - |
dc.description | Restricted Access. | en |
dc.description.abstract | We incorporate the effects of fluctuations in a density functional analysis of the freezing of a colloidal liquid in the presence of an external potential generated by interfering laser beams. A mean-field treatment, using a density functional theory, predicts that with the increase in the strength of the modulating potential, the freezing transition changes from a first order to a continuous one via a tricritical point for a suitable choice of the modulating wavevectors. We demonstrate here that the continuous nature of the freezing transition at large values of the external potential ${V_{\rm e}}$ survives the presence of fluctuations. We also show that fluctuations tend to stabilize the liquid phase in the large ${V_{\rm e}}$ regime. | en |
dc.format.extent | 761038 bytes | - |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.relation.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/jp2:1997155 | en |
dc.rights | (1997) Les Editions de Physique | en |
dc.title | Effect of fluctuations on the freezing of a colloidal suspension in an external periodic potential | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
Appears in Collections: | Research Papers (TP) |
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