A novel chiral phase of achiral hard triangles and an entropy-driven demixing of enantiomers
A novel chiral phase of achiral hard triangles and an entropy-driven demixing of enantiomers
We investigate the phase behavior of a system of hard equilateral and right-angled triangles in two dimensions using Monte Carlo simulations. Hard equilateral triangles undergo a continuous isotropic-triatic liquid crystal phase transition at packing fraction ϕ = 0.7. Similarly, hard right-angled isosceles triangles exhibit a first-order phase transition from an …