Melting Transition of Near-Monolayer Xenon Films on Graphite: A Computer Simulation Study
- 28 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 50 (13), 978-981
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.50.978
Abstract
Xenon films on graphite are simulated with a molecular-dynamics technique. Because of exchange of atoms between the first and second layers, there is a very small temperature window where the first layer melts and freezes continuously in time with a period of nanoseconds. Two-phase coexistence is prevalent during the transitions. The first-layer melting transition is first order, but would appear to be continuous if temporally averaged. These features are in quantitative agreement with recent x-ray scattering experiments.Keywords
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