Transverse excitations and zigzag transition in quasi-1D hard-disk system

Abstract

Molecular dynamics computer simulations of collective excitations in a system of hard disks confined to a narrow channel of the specific width, that resembles 2D triangular lattice at disk close packing, are performed. We found that transverse excitations, which for hard-disk system are absent in the limit of 1D and are of acoustic nature in the limit of 2D, in the case of q1D hard-disk system emerge in the form of transverse optical excitations and could be considered as a tool to detect the structural transition to a zigzag ordering. By analyzing density evolution of longitudinal static structure factor and pair distribution function we have shown that driving force of zigzag ordering is caging phenomenon that in the case of hard-disk system is governed by excluded volume interaction with first and second neighbors and is of entropic origin.

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