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Phase-Transition Mechanisms Between Hexagonal Commensurate and Incommensurate Structures

Parlinski, K.
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Chapuis, G.  
1994
Physical Review B-Condensed Matter

A hexagonal two-dimensional model of particles with displacive degrees of freedom and interacting via potential energy with harmonic and anharmonic third- and fourth-order terms has been studied by the molecular-dynamics technique. The modulated phases characterized by the wave vectors lying in the interval from 1/4 to 1/3 have been specifically considered. The simulations have shown that: (i) the 1q commensurate 1/4 --> 1/3 1q incommensurate phase transition is driven by the stripple mechanism. The stripples are built from four discommensuration planes and the serial mechanism of stripple correlated nucleation has been observed. (ii) The reverse phase transition from 1q incommensurate to 1q commensurate 1/4 phase was obtained only under extreme metastable conditions. No antistripples with four discommensurations were observed. Instead, a rearrangement of same domains gave a possibility to remove discommensuration planes by simple antistripples built up from two discommensurations only. (iii) At the 3q --> 1q phase transition, the columns of 3q phase merged together to form a stripe of a 1q incommensurate phase. (iv) The commensurate phase 1/3 is degenerate with respect to the 1q and 3q modulation patterns. [References: 24]

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research article
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.49.11643
Author(s)
Parlinski, K.
Chapuis, G.  
Date Issued

1994

Published in
Physical Review B-Condensed Matter
Volume

49

Issue

17

Start page

11643

End page

11651

Subjects

Molecular-dynamics simulation

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Electron-microscopy

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Discommensuration lattice

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Quartz

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Microstructure

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2h-tase2

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Model

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Evolution

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States.

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Applied physics/condensed matter.

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