Elastic properties of 2D colloidal crystals from video microscopy
arXiv:cond-mat/0210120 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.155506
Abstract
Elastic constants of two-dimensional (2D) colloidal crystals are determined by measuring strain fluctuations induced by Brownian motion of particles. Paramagnetic colloids confined to an air-water interface of a pending drop are crystallized under the action of a magnetic field, which is applied perpendicular to the 2D layer. Using video-microscopy and digital image-processing we measure fluctuations of the microscopic strain obtained from random displacements of the colloidal particles from their mean (reference) positions. From these we calculate system-size dependent elastic constants, which are extrapolated using finite-size scaling to obtain their values in the thermodynamic limit. The data are found to agree rather well with zero-temperature calculations.
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