Landscape-Inversion Phase Transition in Dipolar Colloids: Tuning the Structure and Dynamics of 2D Crystals

Author(s): Ricard Alert, Jaume Casademunt, and Pietro Tierno

A new first order phase transition is seen in magnetic colloidal crystals, when the energy landscape is completely inverted.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 198301] Published Tue Nov 04, 2014