Different phases of a system of hard rods on three dimensional cubic lattice

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AA967DzbMATH Open1457.82475arXiv1705.10531OpenAlexW2618662711MaRDI QIDQ3302898FDOQ3302898

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Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the different phases of a system of monodispersed hard rods of length $k$ on a cubic lattice using an efficient cluster algorithm which can simulate densities close to the fully-packed limit. For $kleq4$, the system is disordered at all densities. For $k=5,6$, we find a single density-driven transition from a disordered phase to high density layered-disordered phase in which the density of rods of one orientation is strongly suppressed, breaking the system into weakly coupled layers. Within a layer, the system is disordered. For $kgeq7$, three density driven transitions are observed numerically: isotropic to nematic to layered-nematic to layered-disordered. In the layered-nematic phase, the system breaks up into layers, with nematic order in each in each layer, but very weak correlation between the ordering direction between different layers. We argue that the layered-nematic phase is a finite-size effect, and in the thermodynamic limit, the nematic phase will have higher entropy per site.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.10531

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic analysis in statistical mechanics (82M60) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

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