Phase diagrams of He-4 on flat and curved environments

By means of diffusion Monte Carlo calculations, we obtained the phase diagrams of a first and second layer of 4He on graphene and on the outside of different isolated armchair carbon nanotubes with radii in the range 3.42 to 10.85 Å. That corresponds to tubes between the (5, 5) and (16, 16) in stand...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Gordillo Bargueño, Maria Carmen|||0000-0003-1521-483X, Boronat Medico, Jordi|||0000-0002-0273-3457
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/19857
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/19857
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10909-012-0790-5
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
Helium
Phase transitions
Transformacions de fase (Física estadística)
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física
Descripción
Sumario:By means of diffusion Monte Carlo calculations, we obtained the phase diagrams of a first and second layer of 4He on graphene and on the outside of different isolated armchair carbon nanotubes with radii in the range 3.42 to 10.85 Å. That corresponds to tubes between the (5, 5) and (16, 16) in standard nomenclature. In both cases, the ground state is either a liquid (second layer on graphene and on nanotubes whose radii is greater than ∼7 Å) or an incommensurate solid (for thinner tubes). In the former case, upon a density increase, the system undergoes a first-order phase transition to another incommensurate solid. A study of the influence of the C–He potential (isotropic or anisotropic) on the phase diagrams is also presented.