Bond-Orientational Order in Condensed Matter Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Bond-Orientational Order

   • Joel D. Brock

   Pages 1-31

3. Computer Simulation Studies of Bond-Orientational Order

   • Katherine J. Strandburg

   Pages 32-77

4. Nature of Phase Transitions Related to Stacked Hexatic Phases in Liquid Crystals

   • C. C. Huang

   Pages 78-136

5. Experimental Studies of Melting and Hexatic Order in Two-Dimensional Colloidal Suspensions

   • Cherry A. Murray

   Pages 137-215

6. Faceting in Bond-Oriented Glasses and Quasicrystals

   • Tin-Lun Ho

   Pages 216-254

7. Icosahedral Ordering in Supercooled Liquids and Metallic Glasses

   • Subir Sachdev

   Pages 255-283

8. Orientational Order and Quasicrystals

   • Marko Vukobrat Jarić

   Pages 284-340

9. Icosahedral Glass Models for Quasicrystals

   • A. I. Goldman

   Pages 341-380

10. Back Matter

    Pages 381-388

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One of the most important aspects of solid materials is the regularity of the arrangement of the constituent molecules, that is, the long-range order. The focus of this book is on the contribution made by the ordering of bond orientations (as distinguished from the orientations of the molecules themselves) on the behavior of condensed systems, particularly their phase transitions. Examples in which bond-orientational effects play an important role are liquid crystals, quasicrystals, and two-dimensional crystals. This book contains contributions by many of the foremost researchers in the field. The chapters are tutorial reviews of the subject, written both for the active researcher looking for a review of a topic and for the graduate student investigating an exciting area of research. The contributions include an overview by J.D. Brock, Cornell; a discussion of computer simulation studies by K.J. Strandburg, Argonne; chapters on phase transition in hexatic liquid crystals by C.C. Huang, Minnesota and C.A. Murray, Texas A&M; and chapters on quasicrystals by S. Sachdev, Yale, M.V. Jaric, A.I. Goldman, Iowa State, and T.-L. Ho, Ohio State.

• Experiment
• Metall
• glass
• liquid crystals
• molecule
• scattering

• Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA

  Katherine J. Strandburg

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