Liquid-hexatic transition for soft disks.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
We study the liquid-hexatic transition of soft disks with massively parallel simulations and determine the equation of state as a function of system size. For systems with interactions decaying as the inverse mth power of the separation, the liquid-hexatic phase transition is continuous for m=12 and m=8, while it is of first order for m=24. The critical power m for the transition between continuous and first-order behavior is larger than previously reported. The continuous transition for m=12 implies that the two-dimensional Lennard-Jones model has a continuous liquid-hexatic transition at high temperatures. We also study the Weeks-Chandler-Andersen model and find a continuous transition at high temperatures that is consistent with the soft-disk case for m=12. Pressure data as well as our implementation are available from an open-source repository.