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# Laser induced freezing of charge stabilized colloidal system

@article{Das1999LaserIF,
title={Laser induced freezing of charge stabilized colloidal system},
author={Chinmay Das and A. K. Sood and H. R. Krishnamurthy},
journal={arXiv: Soft Condensed Matter},
year={1999}
}
• Published 1 February 1999
• Physics
• arXiv: Soft Condensed Matter
We present results from an extensive simulational study of the modulated liquid $\longleftrightarrow$ crystal transition in a 2-d charge-stabilized colloid subject to a 1-d laser field modulation commensurate with the crystalline phase. {\em {Contrary to some earlier simulational and experimental findings we do not find any reentrant liquid phase in our simulation. Furthermore the transition remains first-order (albeit weak, with a fairly large correlation length) even in the limit of infinite…
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