Long-wavelength fluctuations and dimensionality crossover in confined liquids

• Main Authors: Yang, Jing, Li, Yan-Wei, Ciamarra, Massimo Pica
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Science::Physics; Confined Liquids; Phonons
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159297
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The phase behavior of liquids confined in a slit geometry does not reveal a crossover from a three- to a two-dimensional behavior as the gap size decreases. Indeed, the prototypical two-dimensional hexatic phase only occurs in liquids confined to a monolayer. Here, we demonstrate that the dimensiona...