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SOFT MATTER
卷 11, 期 22, 页码 4517-4526出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5sm00301f
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- CSIR India
- FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES [612707]
Coarse-graining atomic displacements in a solid produces both local affine strains and non-affine'' fluctuations. Here we study the equilibrium dynamics of these coarse grained quantities to obtain space-time dependent correlation functions. We show how a subset of these thermally excited, non-affine fluctuations act as precursors for the nucleation of lattice defects and suggest how defect probabilities may be altered by an experimentally realisable external'' field conjugate to the global non-affinity parameter. Our results are amenable to verification in experiments on colloidal crystals using commonly available holographic laser tweezer and video microscopy techniques, and may lead to simple ways of controlling the defect density of a colloidal solid.
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