Surface Premelting (IMAGE)

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Surface Premelting

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This image shows the surface premelting of bilayer (a-c) and monolayer (d-f) crystals. The color scale (shown in a) indicates the magnitude of the orientational-order parameter of each particle, |ψ6j|.

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Department of Physics, HKUST

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