Title

Grain Boundary Scars and Spherical Crystallography

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Mark Bowick, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NYFollow
A. R. Bausch, Technische Universitat Munchen

Document Type

Article

Date

3-15-2003

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

We describe experimental investigations of the structure of two-dimensional spherical crystals. The crystals, formed by beads self-assembled on water droplets in oil, serve as model systems for exploring very general theories about the minimum energy configurations of particles with arbitrary repulsive interactions on curved surfaces. Above a critical system size we find that crystals develop distinctive high-angle grain boundaries, or scars, not found in planar crystals. The number of excess defects in a scar is shown to grow linearly with the dimensionless system size. The observed slope is expected to be universal, independent of the microscopic potential.

Additional Information

4 pages, 3 eps figs (high quality images available from Mark Bowick) More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303289

First author and SU author listed for additional authors see the article.

Recommended Citation

Bowick, Mark and Bausch, A. R., "Grain Boundary Scars and Spherical Crystallography" (2003). Physics - All Scholarship. 155.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/155

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

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