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Non-equilibrium coexistence between a fluid and a hotter or colder crystal of granular hard disks
R. Maire, A. Plati, F. Smallenburg +1
Non-equilibrium phase coexistence is commonly observed in both biological and artificial systems, yet understanding it remains a significant challenge. Unlike equilibrium systems,…
Self-assembly and non-equilibrium phase coexistence in a binary granular mixture
A. Plati, R. Maire, F. Boulogne +3
We report the experimental observation of a square crystalline phase in a vibrated binary mixture of spherical grains. This structure spontaneously forms from a disordered state, c…
Defects Enhance Stability in 12-fold Symmetric Soft-Matter Quasicrystals
Alptuğ Ulugöl, Robert J. Hardeman, Frank Smallenburg +1
Quasicrystals are materials that exhibit long-range order without translational periodicity. In soft matter, the most commonly observed quasicrystal has 12-fold symmetry and consis…
Statistical mechanics of crystal nuclei of hard spheres
Marjolein de Jager, Carlos Vega, Pablo Montero de Hijes +2
In the study of crystal nucleation via computer simulations, hard spheres are arguably the most extensively explored model system. Nonetheless, even in this simple model system, th…
Fast event-driven simulations for soft spheres: from dynamics to Laves phase nucleation
Antoine Castagnède, Laura Filion, Frank Smallenburg
Conventional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations struggle when simulating particles with steeply varying interaction potentials, due to the need to use a very short time step. Here…
A simple and accurate method to determine fluid-crystal phase boundaries from direct coexistence simulations
Frank Smallenburg, Giovanni Del Monte, Marjolein de Jager +1
One method for computationally determining phase boundaries is to explicitly simulate a direct coexistence between the two phases of interest. Although this approach works very wel…
Interplay between an absorbing phase transition and synchronization in a driven granular system
R. Maire, A. Plati, M. Stockinger +3
Absorbing phase transitions (APTs) are widespread in non-equilibrium systems, spanning condensed matter, epidemics, earthquakes, ecology, and chemical reactions. APTs feature an ab…