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Researchers Confirm Presence of Hexatic Phase in Dusty Plasma
Written by AZoMJan 20 2021
Researchers at the Joint Institute for High Temperatures Russian Academy of Sciences (JIHT RAS) and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have experimentally validated the existence of an intermediate phase between the liquid and crystalline states in a monolayer dusty plasma system.
Intermediate phase illustration. Image Credit: Scientific Reports.
The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016 was awarded for the theoretical prediction of the intermediate hexatic phase to Michael Kosterlitz, David Thouless, and Duncan Haldane with the formulation “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.”
Credit: Scientific Reports
Scientists from the Joint Institute for High Temperatures Russian Academy of Sciences (JIHT RAS) and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have experimentally confirmed the presence of an intermediate phase between the crystalline and liquid states in a monolayer dusty plasma system. The theoretical prediction of the intermediate - hexatic - phase was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016: the prize was awarded to Michael Kosterlitz, David Thouless and Duncan Haldane with the formulation for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
In a scientific article in the journal
Scientific Reports, the JIHT RAS scientists published their observations and detailed descriptions of experiments, during which they first observed the hexatic phase in two-dimensional structures in plasma. The paper describes methods for accurately identifying phase transition points and presents a detailed analy
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Scientists from the Joint Institute for High Temperatures Russian Academy of Sciences (JIHT RAS) and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have experimentally confirmed the presence of an intermediate phase between the crystalline and liquid states in a monolayer dusty plasma system.