Melting of a two-dimensional electron lattice
- 1 May 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 23 (9), 4794-4797
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.23.4794
Abstract
Melting of a two-dimensional electron lattice is studied using the molecular-dynamics technique. It is found that the system undergoes a first-order phase transition between . The system exhibits hysteresis in the temperature dependence of total energy and the coefficient of self-diffusion. The change in entropy on melting is found to be per particle.
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