Transitions of Spherical Code Clusters

N = 5 Transition Movie

While the N = 5 cluster transiton can happen through different paths, the result is a sphere hopping into the N=6 cluster site vacancy. There are four ways this action can occur. This movie is generated from a simulations, where the spheres are slightly soft. In the simulation Λ = 0.38, or less than the hard sphere Λ_T=0.4142.

Transitions of Spherical Code Clusters

Supplementary Materials for Phillips, Jankowski, Jyoti Krishnatreya, Edmund, Sacanna, Grier, Pine, Glotzer, Digital Colloids: Reconfigurable Clusters as High Information Density Elements, Soft Matter, 2014

N=4

N=5

N=6

N=7

N=8

N=9

N=10

N=11

N=12

N = 5 Transition Movie