Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 78, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.245414
Keywords
adsorption; commensurate-incommensurate transformations; helium films; phase diagrams
Funding
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada [G12120893]
- Swiss National Science Foundation
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We present results of a theoretical study of He-4 films adsorbed on graphite based on the continuous space worm algorithm. In the first layer, we find a domain-wall phase and a (7/16) registered structure between the commensurate (1/3) and the incommensurate solid phases. For the second layer, we find only superfluid and incommensurate solid phases. The commensurate phase found in a previous simulation work is only observed if first-layer particles are kept fixed; it disappears upon explicitly including their zero-point fluctuations. No evidence of any supersolid phase is found.
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