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  • Title: Cooperative dynamics in two dimensions.
    Author: Zangi R, Rice SA.
    Journal: Phys Rev Lett; 2004 Jan 23; 92(3):035502. PubMed ID: 14753884.
    Abstract:
    We report results from molecular dynamics simulations of cooperative motion in a quasi-two-dimensional system of colloid particles. We find that the onset of the deviation of the single-particle displacement distribution from Gaussian form starts in the liquid phase and extends, with increasing magnitude, through the hexatic phase into the crystalline phase. The time for which the deviation is maximum increases exponentially with the density. As the density increases toward the hexatic phase a third dynamical relaxation mode emerges. We argue that the collective motion is generated by superpositions of instantaneous normal mode vibrations, with lifetimes that increase with the density, along paths with strong bond-orientation correlation.
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