Comment on "Freezing by heating in a driven mesoscopic system"
arXiv:cond-mat/0212315 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.189603
Abstract
We point out that the phenomenon ``heating by freezing'' discovered in nonequilibrium simulations by Helbing, et al. (PRL 84, 1240 (2000)) extends to equilibrium systems as well. We argue that such reentrant fluctuation-driven freezing can, for example, be realized in two-dimensional colloidal systems subjected to a one-dimensional periodic potential.
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