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Publication
Physical Review Letters
Paper
Novel melting transition in a two-dimensional stripe-domain system
Abstract
The melting transition of the two-dimensional stripe-domain phase of bromine layers intercalated into graphite has been investigated by high-resolution x-ray diffraction. The transition is characterized by the progressive vanishing of successive harmonics so that near melting the density is described by a two-dimensional sine wave. Surprisingly, the sine-wave order parameter is best characterized by the power-law form, &, with 1 evolving continuously from 0.04 to 2.0 through melting. © 1987 The American Physical Society.