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Effect of clustering on the orientational properties of a fluid of hard right isosceles triangles

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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
卷 34, 期 3, 页码 -

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AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0085281

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  1. Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain [FIS2017-86007-C3-1-P]
  2. Agencia Estatal de Investigacion-Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion of Spain [PGC2018-096606-B-I00]

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Recent studies have shown that fluid of hard right triangles possesses fourfold and quasi-eightfold (octatic) orientational symmetries. However, the standard density-functional theory and an extension incorporating three-body correlations fail to describe these symmetries. Strong particle clustering is proposed as a crucial factor to explain the origin of octatic symmetry. Analysis of four binary mixtures of hard right triangles and squares reveals the rich phenomenology in phase diagrams, including demixing and three-phase coexistences. The study also demonstrates the importance of clustering in explaining the orientational properties of liquid-crystal phases in some two-dimensional fluids.
Recent studies have shown the fluid of hard right triangles to possess fourfold and quasi-eightfold (octatic) orientational symmetries. However, the standard density-functional theory for two-dimensional anisotropic fluids, based on two-body correlations, and an extension to incorporate three-body correlations fail to describe these symmetries. To explain the origin of octatic symmetry, we postulate strong particle clustering as a crucial ingredient. We use the scaled particle theory to analyze four binary mixtures of hard right triangles and squares, three of them being extreme models for a one-component fluid, where right triangles can exist as monomeric entities together with triangular dimers, square dimers, or square tetramers. Phase diagrams exhibit a rich phenomenology, with demixing and three-phase coexistences. More important, under some circumstances the orientational distribution function of triangles has equally high peaks at relative particle angles 0 , pi/2 , and pi, signaling fourfold, tetratic order, but also secondary peaks located at pi/4 and 3 pi /4, a feature of eightfold, octatic order. Also, we extend the binary mixture model to a quaternary mixture consisting of four types of clusters: monomers, triangular and square dimers, and square tetramers. This mixture is analyzed using the scaled particle theory under the restriction of fixed cluster fractions. Apart from the obvious tetratic phase promoted by tetramers, we found that, for certain cluster compositions, the total orientational distribution function of monomers can exhibit quasi-eightfold (octatic) symmetry. The study gives evidence on the importance of clustering to explain the peculiar orientational properties of liquid-crystal phases in some two-dimensional fluids. Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.

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