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Phase diagram and phase transitions of Krypton on graphite in the extended monolayer regime

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Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter

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We report high resolution x-ray diffraction studies of the structures and phase transitions of monolayer krypton, adsorbed on both powder and single crystal graphite substrates. A comprehensive series of powder diffraction profiles is used to construct the two dimensional phase diagram. The melting of the\(\sqrt 3 x\sqrt 3\) commensurate solid is shown to be strongly first order throughout the region where tricritical behavior was previously thought to occur; fluid solid coexistence extends up to the termination of the commensurate phase at 130 K. A disordered weakly incommensurate phase is shown to be a reentrant fluid, a system which may be described as a disordered network of domain walls and which evolves continuously into a more conventional 2D fluid. This evolution is marked by the disappearance of satellite peaks which are caused by the modulation of the overlayer by the substrate. The freezing of the reentrant fluid into the commensurate phase is shown to be consistent with a chiral Potts transition, its freezing into the incommensurate solid consistent with a dislocation binding transition.

Single crystal experiments reveal the orientation of the weakly incommensurate phase. The reentrant fluid is found to have no visible orientational fluctuations, manifesting isotropic diffraction peaks. This is attributed to the strong epitaxy of domain walls. The incommensurate solid is shown to undergo an aligned-rotated transition which is well described by zerotemperature calculations.

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  1. S. E. Nagler

    Present address: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 10598, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

  2. E. D. Specht

    Present address: Metals and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 37831, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

  3. M. Sutton

    Present address: Department of Physics, McGill University, H3A 2T8, Montreal, PQ, Canada

  4. K. L. D'Amico & D. E. Moncton

    Present address: Exxon Research and Engineering Co., 08801, Annandale, NJ, USA

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  1. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    E. D. Specht, A. Mak, C. Peters, M. Sutton & R. J. Birgeneau

  2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA

    K. L. D'Amico & D. E. Moncton

  3. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 10598, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

    P. M. Horn

  4. Dept. of Physics, University of Florida, 32611, Gainesville, FL, USA

    S. E. Nagler

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Specht, E.D., Mak, A., Peters, C. et al. Phase diagram and phase transitions of Krypton on graphite in the extended monolayer regime. Z. Physik B - Condensed Matter 69, 347–377 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01307294

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