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Colloidal Hard Spheres: Triumphs, Challenges and Mysteries
C. Patrick Royall, Patrick Charbonneau, Marjolein Dijkstra +4
The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static an…
Gardner-like transition from variable to persistent force contacts in granular crystals
Lars Kool, Patrick Charbonneau, Karen E. Daniels
We report experimental evidence of a Gardner-like transition from variable to persistent force contacts in a two-dimensional, bidisperse granular crystal by analyzing the variabili…
Characterization and Efficient Monte Carlo Sampling of Disordered Microphases
Mingyuan Zheng, Patrick Charbonneau
The disordered microphases that develop in the high-temperature phase of systems with competing short-range attractive and long-range repulsive (SALR) interactions result in a rich…
Solution of Disordered Microphases in the Bethe approximation
Patrick Charbonneau, Marco Tarzia
The periodic microphases that self-assemble in systems with competing short-range attractive and long-range repulsive interactions are structurally both rich and elegant. Significa…
Comment on "Kosterlitz-Thouless-type caging-uncaging transition in a quasi-one-dimensional hard disk system" [Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033351 (2020)]
Yi Hu, Patrick Charbonneau
Huerta et al. [Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033351 (2020)] report a power-law decay of positional order in numerical simulations of hard disks confined within hard parallel walls, which…
Front-mediated melting of ultrastable glasses
Elijah Flenner, Ludovic Berthier, Patrick Charbonneau +1
Ultrastable vapor-deposited glasses display uncommon material properties. Most remarkably, upon heating they are believed to melt via a liquid front that originates at the free sur…
Correlation lengths in quasi-one-dimensional systems via transfer matrices
Yi Hu, Lin Fu, Patrick Charbonneau
Using transfer matrices up to next-nearest-neighbour (NNN) interactions, we examine the structural correlations of quasi-one-dimensional systems of hard disks confined by two paral…
Clustering and assembly dynamics of a one-dimensional microphase former
Yi Hu, Patrick Charbonneau
Both ordered and disordered microphases ubiquitously form in suspensions of particles that interact through competing short-range attraction and long-range repulsion (SALR). While…
Glassy, Gardner-like Phenomenology in Minimally Polydisperse Crystalline Systems
Patrick Charbonneau, Eric I. Corwin, Lin Fu +2
We report on a non-equilibrium phase of matter, the minimally disordered crystal phase, which we find exists between the maximally amorphous glasses and the ideal crystal. Even tho…
Microphase Equilibrium and Assembly Dynamics
Yuan Zhuang, Patrick Charbonneau
Despite many attempts, ordered equilibrium microphases have yet to be obtained in experimental colloidal suspensions. The recent computation of the equilibrium phase diagram of a m…
Origin of ultrastability in vapor-deposited glasses
Ludovic Berthier, Patrick Charbonneau, Elijah Flenner +1
Glass films created by vapor-depositing molecules onto a substrate can exhibit properties similar to those of ordinary glasses aged for thousands of years. It is believed that enha…
Phase diagram and aggregation dynamics of a monolayer of paramagnetic colloids
An T. Pham, Yuan Zhuang, Paige Detwiler +3
We have developed a tunable colloidal system and a corresponding simulation model for studying the phase behavior of particles assembling under the influence of long-range magnetic…
Assembly of hard spheres in a cylinder: a computational and experimental study
Lin Fu, Ce Bian, C. Wyatt Shields +3
Hard spheres are an important benchmark of our understanding of natural and synthetic systems. In this work, colloidal experiments and Monte Carlo simulations examine the equilibri…
Recent Advances in the Theory and Simulation of Model Colloidal Microphase Formers
Yuan Zhuang, Patrick Charbonneau
This mini-review synthesizes our understanding of the equilibrium behavior of particle models with short-range attractive and long-range repulsive (SALR) interactions. These models…
Equilibrium phase behavior of the square-well linear microphase-forming model
Yuan Zhuang, Patrick Charbonneau
We have recently developed a simulation approach to calculate the equilibrium phase diagram of particle-based microphase formers. Here, this approach is used to calculate the phase…
Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations for Birefringence Relaxation of Photo-Switchable Molecules on a Surface
Raffaele Tavarone, Patrick Charbonneau, Holger Stark
Recent experiments have demonstrated that in a dense monolayer of photo-switchable dye Methyl-Red molecules the relaxation of an initial birefringence follows a power-law decay, ty…
The Physics of Protein Self-Assembly
Jennifer J. McManus, Patrick Charbonneau, Emanuela Zaccarelli +1
Understanding protein self-assembly is important for many biological and industrial processes. Proteins can self-assemble into crystals, filaments, gels, and other amorphous aggreg…
Hard sphere packings within cylinders
Lin Fu, William Steinhardt, Hao Zhao +2
The packing of hard spheres (HS) of diameter in a cylinder has been used to model experimental systems, such as fullerenes in nanotubes and colloidal wire assembly. Finding the…
Highly Parallel Acoustic Assembly of Microparticles into Well-Ordered Colloidal Crystallites
Crystal E. Owens, C. Wyatt Shields, Daniela F. Cruz +2
The precise arrangement of microscopic objects is critical to the development of functional materials and ornately patterned surfaces. Here, we present an acoustics-based method fo…
Growing timescales and lengthscales characterizing vibrations of amorphous solids
Ludovic Berthier, Patrick Charbonneau, Yuliang Jin +3
Low-temperature properties of crystalline solids can be understood using harmonic perturbations around a perfect lattice, as in Debye's theory. Low-temperature properties of amorph…
Equilibrium Phase Behavior of a Continuous-Space Microphase Former
Yuan Zhuang, Kai Zhang, Patrick Charbonneau
Periodic microphases universally emerge in systems for which short-range inter-particle attraction is frustrated by long-range repulsion. The morphological richness of these phases…
Soft Matter Perspective on Protein Crystal Assembly
Diana Fusco, Patrick Charbonneau
Crystallography may be the gold standard of protein structure determination, but obtaining the necessary high-quality crystals is also in some ways akin to prospecting for the prec…
Phase Transformations in Binary Colloidal Monolayers
Ye Yang, Lin Fu, Catherine Marcoux +3
Phase transformations can be difficult to characterize at the microscopic level due to the inability to directly observe individual atomic motions. Model colloidal systems, by cont…
Competition between monomeric and dimeric crystals in schematic models for globular proteins
Diana Fusco, Patrick Charbonneau
Advances in experimental techniques and in theoretical models have improved our understanding of protein crystallization. But they have also left open questions regarding the prote…